“…Most studies on reading abilities in preterm children (PT) were carried out with very preterm (VPT) or extremely preterm (EPT) children (gestational age < 32 weeks), and the results indicate that school-aged PT children obtain significantly lower results than full-term children (FT) in decoding abilities (Anderson et al, 2003;Johnson et al, 2012Johnson et al, , 2016Taylor et al, 2016;Alanko et al, 2017;Guarini et al, 2019), reading comprehension (Lee et al, 2011) or in both decoding abilities and reading comprehension (Pritchard et al, 2009(Pritchard et al, , 2014Johnson et al, 2011;Leijon et al, 2016Leijon et al, , 2018. Similar results were found in two metaanalyses (Aarnoudse-Moens et al, 2009;Kovachy et al, 2015).…”