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Table 6 Subjects’ performance of sub-skills operating at word level by reading levels

From: The interface between unitary hypothesis and componential approach to testing reading skills: do subjects show similar levels of performance with respect to specific reading sub-skills in tests representing both theories? Descriptive correlational study

No

Sub-skills

No of test items

Scores achieved

Independent reading level

Instructional reading level

Frustration reading level

1

Interpreting lexical cohesion

5

65

81%

72

69%

72

63%

2

Guessing meanings of words from context

5

76

95%

56

53%

32

28%

3

Identifying referents/antecedents

6

77

80%

68

54%

50

36%

  1. *N = high scorers 16; average scorers 21; low scorers 23
  2. Expected scores: independent reading level 80/96; instructional reading level 105/126; frustration reading level 115/138