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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jan 21.
Published in final edited form as: J Res Read. 2011 Nov 15;36(2):172–185. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9817.2011.01498.x

Table 1.

Descriptive statistics for fifth-grade reading comprehension and decoding skills (percentile scores) for typical readers, poor decoders and poor comprehenders.

Reading comprehension
Decoding
Mean SD Range Mean SD Range
Typical readers (n = 35) 62.4 12.5 41–81 67.1 12.0 47–84
Poor decoders (n = 11) 47.6 5.9 41–60 20.8 3.5 13–24
Poor comprehenders (n = 16) 19.9 5.2 6–24 47.9 6.9 42–70

Note: Reading Comprehension and Decoding5Percentile scores on the Woodcock-Johnson Passage Comprehension and Letter–Word Identification subtests, respectively.