Table 2.
Home and classroom language and literacy activities predicting emergent literacy skills in English and Spanish.
| Coef. | S.E. | p | 95% C.I. | Coef. | S.E. | p | 95% C.I. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English literacy skills (n = 232) | Model A | Model B | |||||||||
| Intercept | 88.76 | 11.83 | 0.000 | 65.57 | 111.95 | 26.09 | 31.25 | 0.404 | −35.15 | 87.33 | |
| Child level covariates | |||||||||||
| Child age | −0.06 | 0.10 | 0.541 | −0.25 | 0.13 | −0.05 | 0.10 | 0.603 | −0.24 | 0.14 | |
| Child gender (boy) | −3.65 | 1.66 | 0.028 | −6.90 | −0.40 | −3.78 | 1.64 | 0.021 | −7.00 | −0.56 | |
| Total # of children at home | −1.22 | 0.64 | 0.057 | −2.48 | 0.03 | −1.39 | 0.64 | 0.030 | −2.64 | −0.13 | |
| Parental edu | −0.07 | 0.22 | 0.757 | −0.49 | 0.36 | −0.10 | 0.21 | 0.645 | −0.52 | 0.32 | |
| Parental Spa use | 0.10 | 0.94 | 0.912 | −1.74 | 1.95 | 0.16 | 0.93 | 0.865 | −1.67 | 1.99 | |
| Classroom level covariates | |||||||||||
| Teachers’ edu | −0.04 | 1.04 | 0.967 | −2.08 | 1.99 | −0.07 | 1.02 | 0.947 | −2.07 | 1.93 | |
| Teachers’ instructional lang | −0.61 | 1.03 | 0.551 | −2.63 | 1.41 | −0.64 | 1.01 | 0.526 | −2.63 | 1.34 | |
| Key predictors | |||||||||||
| Home activities | 1.40 | 1.20 | 0.245 | −0.96 | 3.75 | 22.73 | 9.93 | 0.022 | 3.26 | 42.20 | |
| Classroom activities | 0.07 | 1.73 | 0.966 | −3.31 | 3.46 | 11.70 | 5.64 | 0.038 | 0.65 | 22.75 | |
| Interaction | |||||||||||
| Home activities × Classroom activities | −3.95 | 1.82 | 0.031 | −7.52 | −0.37 | ||||||
| Spanish literacy skills (n = 233) | Model C | Model D | |||||||||
| Intercept | 60.90 | 10.16 | 0.000 | 40.98 | 80.81 | 4.45 | 28.47 | 0.876 | −51.35 | 60.25 | |
| Child level control variables | |||||||||||
| Child age | −0.15 | 0.09 | 0.085 | −0.32 | 0.02 | −0.14 | 0.09 | 0.098 | −0.31 | 0.03 | |
| Child gender (boy) | −1.14 | 1.53 | 0.459 | −4.14 | 1.87 | −1.25 | 1.52 | 0.411 | −4.23 | 1.73 | |
| Total # of children at home | −0.98 | 0.59 | 0.097 | −2.13 | 0.18 | −1.14 | 0.59 | 0.052 | −2.30 | 0.01 | |
| Parental edu | 0.10 | 0.20 | 0.629 | −0.29 | 0.48 | 0.07 | 0.20 | 0.724 | −0.31 | 0.45 | |
| Parental Spa use | 3.20 | 0.83 | 0.000 | 1.58 | 4.82 | 3.27 | 0.82 | 0.000 | 1.66 | 4.88 | |
| Classroom level control variables | |||||||||||
| Teachers’ edu | −0.12 | 0.77 | 0.875 | −1.64 | 1.40 | −0.13 | 0.77 | 0.869 | −1.63 | 1.38 | |
| Teachers’ instructional lang | 0.26 | 0.76 | 0.733 | −1.23 | 1.76 | 0.24 | 0.75 | 0.747 | −1.23 | 1.72 | |
| Key predictors | |||||||||||
| Home activities | 3.82 | 1.12 | 0.001 | 1.63 | 6.00 | 22.83 | 9.03 | 0.011 | 5.13 | 40.53 | |
| Classroom activities | 3.31 | 1.43 | 0.021 | 0.50 | 6.12 | 13.77 | 5.13 | 0.007 | 3.72 | 23.82 | |
| Interaction | |||||||||||
| Home activities × Classroom activities | −3.52 | 1.66 | 0.034 | −6.77 | −0.27 | ||||||
Bolded predictors were significant at the α = 0.05 level.