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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Read Writ. 2013 Aug;26(7):1059–1086. doi: 10.1007/s11145-012-9406-3

Table 6.

Classification of reading difficulty

All struggling readers (N = 993)
 No difficulties 147 14.8 %
 Some difficulties 846 85.2 %
Struggling readers with difficulty (N = 846)
 By area
 Decoding 399 47.16 %
 Fluency 388 45.86 %
Comprehension/fluency 666 78.72 %
 Comprehension 711 84.04 %
 By specificity
 Decoding only 7 0.83 %
 Fluency only 16 1.89 %
 Comprehension/fluency only 68 8.04 %
 Comprehension only 102 12.06 %

Proportions are given using WJ-III Passage Comprehension or GRADE Reading Comprehension