. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Dec 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Exp Child Psychol. 2009 Aug 18;104(4):410–426. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2009.07.003

Table 1.

Mean Proportion of Correct Responses in the Letter Name, Letter Sound and Reading Tasks in Portuguese and English for the All Children and for the Prephonological and Phonological Spellers (Standard Deviations in Parenthesis)

	All Children		Prephonological Spellers		Phonological Spellers

Tasks	Portuguese (n = 79)	English (n = 51)	Portuguese (n = 35)	English (n = 23)	Portuguese (n = 31)	English (n = 21)

Letter name	.81 (.26)	.82 (.21)	.70 (.26)	.76 (.22)	.99 (.04)	.92 (.12)
Letter sound	.41 (.31)	.49 (.25)	.24 (.18)	.40 (.21)	.69 (.04)	.63 (.27)
Reading	.09 (.24)	.15 (.27)	.00 (.00)	.06 (.11)	.22 (.34)	.28 (.36)