Table 1.
Mean (SD) Age and Demographics (%) by Reader/Intervention and Passage Protocol Group
| Demographic | Typical
|
Struggling
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intervention
|
No Intervention
|
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| Familiar | Novel | Familiar | Novel | Familiar | Novel | |
| n | 279 | 309 | 162 | 122 | 234 | 237 |
| Age | 12.2 (0.9) | 12.2 (0.9) | 12.5 (0.9) | 12.5 (1.0) | 12.3 (1.0) | 12.3 (1.0) |
| Gender (female) | 55 | 59 | 49 | 46 | 50 | 46 |
| Reduced-price or free luncha | 67 | 77 | 89 | 87 | 91 | 86 |
| African American | 35 | 41 | 39 | 33 | 39 | 45 |
| Hispanic | 29 | 28 | 43 | 48 | 46 | 40 |
| White | 30 | 27 | 14 | 16 | 14 | 11 |
| Asian | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Grade 6 | 36 | 39 | 33 | 36 | 40 | 49 |
| Grade 7 | 25 | 22 | 23 | 23 | 23 | 19 |
| Grade 8 | 39 | 39 | 44 | 41 | 37 | 32 |
Reduced-price or free lunch status data were missing for some students (Missing Typical Familiar = 6 Novel = 1; Struggling–No Intervention Familiar = 4 Novel = 1; Struggling–Intervention Familiar = 9 Novel = 7).