Download PDF version (119 KB) What is the Fluency Addition to
NAAL (FAN)? FAN is the component of NAAL that measures oral
reading fluency. FAN was first administered in 2003 and is
designed as a proxy for basic (i.e., word-level) reading skills.
All NAAL respondents, from the least literate to the most
literate, are administered the FAN. FAN assesses components of
literacy performance not measured by the "main NAAL." What are
the principal goals of FAN? FAN goals are to (1) establish a
basic reading skills scale and a baseline measure for future
comparisons; (2) identify, for the first time, the relationship
between basic reading skills and overall literacy (i.e., compare
scores for the basic literacy skills measured by FAN with
performance results from the main NAAL); (3) identify the
relationship between FAN scores and the health literacy scores
measured by NAAL; (4) identify results for selected demographic
groups as well as for participants with selected background
characteristics; and ultimately (5) perm