“…Research on literacy acquisition spanning several decades has consistently found LNK to be a powerful preschool predictor of learning to read, sometimes even the best single predictor (Bond & Dykstra, 1967;Bruck, Genesee, & Caravolas, 1997;Caravolas, Hulme, & Snowling, 2001;Catts, Fey, Zhang, & Tomblin, 2001;Chall, 1983;Ellis & Large, 1988;McBride-Chang, 1999;McCormick, Stoner, & Duncan, 1994;Muter, Hulme, Snowling, & Taylor, 1997;Na¨slund & Schneider, 1996;Pennington & Lefly, 2001;Share, Jorm, Maclean, & Matthews, 1984). Such findings are mainly based on sizable positive longitudinal correlations between children's letter naming ability, generally measured with an uppercase naming test administrated during kindergarten, and their first-grade reading achievement.…”