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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 25.
Published in final edited form as: J Res Pract Adult Lit Second Basic Educ. 2012 Summer;1(2):78–90.

Table 1.

Means and Standard Deviations for each of the Measures by Reading Group.

Measure Unskilled Readers Resilient Readers Good Decoders/Poor Comprenders Skilled Reader
Work Attack 7.28a (3.18) 7.93a (2.37) 26.83b (3.10) 27.56b (2.30)
Passage Comprehension 18.56a (4.25) 28.79b (2.61) 21.75c (2.14) 32.32d (2.87)
Letter Word Identification 39.28a (8.46) 46.50b (6.86) 57.42c (10.82) 64.36d (4.78)
Nonsense Word Fluency 39.50a (30.39) 52.57a (34.48) 91.62b (46.98) 104.48b (42.34)
Oral Reading Fluency 74.44a (40.85) 122.86b (36.13) 132.17b (49.27) 172.96c (30.62)
Reading Fluency 23.67a (11.95) 39.43b (14.68) 36.33b (12.20) 52.52c (11.86)
Irregular Word Reading 12.5a (9.10) 27.14b (11.13) 25.08b (9.68) 39.44c (9.15)

Note: When a significant main effect for group was found, superscripts were added to indicate which groups were different from one another. Groups with the same superscript did not differ significantly from one another.