Learning Literacy Glossary
Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN)
The ability to quickly read aloud the names of familiar objects (e.g., colors).
Reading Comprehension
The ability to understand what you are reading.
Receptive Language
Language that you understand.
Reliability
The consistency of a set of scores that are designed to measure the same thing. Reliability is a statistical property of scores that must be demonstrated rather than assumed.
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