Table 1.

Mean scores for pretest measures for good and poor reading children in the phonics, word, and no feedback condition

	Good readers			Poor readers
	Phonics	Word	No	Phonics	Word	No
N	22	14	12	22	10	15
Pseudoword repetition [40]	31.10 (5.22)	28.86 (4.29)	32.92 (6.01)	27.50 (5.56)	26.90 (5.86)	26.93 (4.93)
Naming speed [120]	57.27 (11.41)	56.00 (10.18)	61.08 (10.82)	48.86 (7.83)	45.10 (8.01)	50.93 (11.17)
Passive vocabulary [96]	77.05 (5.77)	78.43 (6.93)	79.83 (4.73)	75.95 (5.03)	77.10 (8.53)	76.33 (4.92)

Standard deviations are within parenthesis, maximum scores are presented within brackets