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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Sep 2.
Published in final edited form as: Appl Dev Sci. 2010 Oct 27;14(4):179–196. doi: 10.1080/10888691.2010.516187

TABLE 2.

Child and Family Characteristics and Child Fall and Spring Language and Literacy Skills (n=1165)

n % Missing Mean Sd
Child and family characteristics
 Gender  49
  Boy  570 51
  Girl  546 49
 Language(s) spoken at home 45
  English only  910 81
  Other language  210 19
 Maternal education (years) 1104 61 12.70  2.05
 Family income 155
  Poverty  695 69
  Not poverty  315 31
 Year of intervention 0
  Year 1  600 52
  Year 2  565 49
Language and literacy assessments
 Fall receptive vocabulary 1066 99 30.40  3.99
 Spring receptive vocabulary 1022 143 34.10  3.41
 Fall blending sounds 1052 113  6.31  3.07
 Spring blending sounds 1014 151  8.29  2.88
 Fall elision 1039 126  4.40  3.21
 Spring elision 1006 159  7.43  3.41
 Fall print awareness 1056 109 16.70  9.03
 Spring print awareness 1019 146 28.90  7.60
 Fall emergent literacy composite  854 311 34.10 16.60
 Spring emergent literacy composite  913 252 60.20 12.60