Orthographic analogies and phonological awareness: their role and significance in early reading development

Two studies investigated young children's use of analogies in reading. In Study 1, 6-year-old children were trained to criterion on a series of clue words. Following training, they read more words that shared spelling patterns with the clue words than control words. However, this effect was reduced when the clue word was not exposed at post-test. Study 2 showed that there was a significant relationship between rhyming and analogizing at age 6, but the predictive relationship between phonological skills at ages 4 and 5 and use of analogy at age 6 was not significant.