This study uses pre-readers to examine transfer of letter-naming skills to a word-naming task in a variety of paradigms. It was found that transfer phenomena observed in adults do not universally generalize to the pre-reader and that training in phonic blending is necessary in order for phonic-letter training to yield positive transfer to a word-reading task.
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