Abstract: The sameness and differences in Chinese Character production and recognition between poor readers and normal readers were examined in dictation and choice tasks. It was found that the regularity of phonetic parts had influence on the accuracy of character production and recognition; Poor readers produced more orthographically different homophonic characters; Poor readers especially need the help of cues. The data were discussed in relation to theories of lexicon structure and lexical processing of children.

Key words: reading level, regularity effect, production and recognition, homophone errors