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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Apr 13.
Published in final edited form as: Top Lang Disord. 2006 Oct;26(4):338–350. doi: 10.1097/00011363-200610000-00006

Table 2.

Summary of hierarchical regression analysis for kindergarten variables predicting English word reading in first grade (N = 244)

Variable B SE B B
Step 1
 English vocabulary 0.38 0.05 0.46***
Step 2
 English vocabulary 0.29 0.06 0.35***
 English memory for sentences 0.17 0.07 0.18*
Step 3
 English vocabulary 0.24 0.06 0.29***
 English memory for sentences 0.08 0.07 0.08
 English phonological awareness 0.92 0.18 0.31***

Note. R2 = .21 for Step 1, .23 for Step 2, and .31 for Step 3; ΔR2 = .02 for Step 2 (ps < .05) and ΔR2 = .07 for Step 3 (ps < .001).

*

p < .05.

***

p < .001.