Table 3.

Standardized loadings and residuals (kindergarten and first grade entire samples, and skilled and less skilled word readers in first grade).

	Kindergarten entire sample		First grade entire sample		First grade skilled word readers		First grade less skilled word readers
	Loading (SE)	Residuals (SE)	Loading (SE)	Residuals (SE)	Loading (SE)	Residuals (SE)	Loading (SE)	Residuals (SE)
Listening comprehension
Task 1	.87 (.09)	.25 (.16)	.67 (.06)	.55 (.09)	.52 (.10)	.73 (.10)	.61 (.09)	.63 (.11)
Task 2	.49 (.06)	.76 (.06)	.55 (.06)	.70 (.07)	.53 (.10)	.72 (.11)	.65 (.09)	.58 (.12)
Word reading fluency
TRF Passage 1 words	.96 (.01)	.07 (.02)	.95 (.01)	.10 (.02)	.93 (.02)	.14 (.04)	.96 (.01)	.09 (.03)
TRF Passage 2 words	.98 (.01)	.03 (.01)	.95 (.01)	.10 (.02)	.93 (.02)	.13 (.04)	.96 (.01)	.08 (.03)
TRF Passage 3 words	.97 (.01)	.06 (.01)	.92 (.01)	.16 (.03)	.88 (.03)	.23 (.05)	.93 (.02)	.14 (.03)
Text reading fluency
Passage 1	.96 (.01)	.08 (.02)	.85 (.02)	.28 (.04)	.82 (.04)	.33 (.06)	.85 (.03)	.27 (.06)
Passage 2	.99 (.004)	.02 (.01)	.88 (.02)	.23 (.04)	.81 (.04)	.34 (.06)	.95 (.02)	.10 (.04)
Passage 3	.98 (.01)	.05 (.01)	.89 (.02)	.20 (.04)	.85 (.04)	.27 (.06)	.85 (.03)	.28 (.06)
Reading comprehension
RC Passage 1	.76 (.04)	.42 (.06)	.63 (.04)	.60 (.06)	.51 (.07)	.75 (.07)	.61 (.06)	.63 (.08)
RC Passage 2	.87 (.03)	.24 (.05)	.79 (.04)	.37 (.06)	.77 (.07)	.41 (.10)	1.00 (.00)	.00
Cloze task	.91 (.02)	.16 (.04)	.68 (.05)	.55 (.07)	.53 (.07)	.72 (.07)	.61 (.06)	.63 (.08)

TRF = Text reading fluency; RC = Reading comprehension

Note: All the loadings were statistically significant at .001 level.