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Table S8. Standard errors for the acquisition of reading skills from spring kindergarten to spring 3rd grade among children who began kindergarten in fall 1998, by number of family risk factors: 1998–2002

Reading skill and number of family risk factors	Spring kindergarten	Spring 1st	Spring 3rd

Literal inference
Zero	0.12	0.98	1.05
One	0.15	0.82	1.63
Two or more	0.14	0.68	2.32
Derive meaning
Zero	0.03	0.34	1.33
One	0.03	0.29	1.62
Two or more	0.02	0.35	1.56
Interpreting beyond text
Zero	0.02	0.20	0.96
One	0.02	0.15	1.03
Two or more	0.01	0.18	1.09

SOURCE: Rathburn, A., and West, J. (2004). From Kindergarten Through Third Grade: Children’s Beginning School Experiences (NCES 2004–007), table A-9a and previously unpublished tabulation (November 2004). Data from U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998 (ECLS–K), Longitudinal Kindergarten-First Grade Public-Use Data File and Third Grade Restricted-Use Data File.

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