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Where RAN Research Began: The 1986 Longitudinal Study

The kindergarten-to-grade-2 study in Child Development that launched four decades of naming-speed research.

Maryanne Wolf, Heidi Bally & Robin Morris

Aug 1, 1986

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The Child Development study that started the naming-speed research program: 83 children followed from kindergarten through grade 2.

As automaticity in retrieval developed in average readers, naming-speed/reading relationships moved from strong, general predictions to highly differentiated ones.
— Wolf, Bally & Morris, 1986

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