A cognitive training session for 5 year olds : its transferring effects when these pupils are learning to read, from 6 to 8 years old. Sylvie CEBE, Psychologie du développement, Université de Provence. Two distinct courses of action can be taken when preparing the pupils for the fundamental learning of written ianguage : the first, didactic (given priority in this review), which concerns knowledge and savoir-faire relating to the Ianguage, and the second, cognitive, which centres upon the acquisition of general cognitive and meta-cognitive skills. Our work cornes within the framework of the latter. We believe that it is necessary to modify the learning conditions in which the pupils are placed (and especially pupils from working-class bac...