Early gaps in highly constrained reading skills significantly close after two years of schooling

Percent proficient in letter-sound correspondence at the beginning of words at fall kindergarten to spring kindergarten and spring first grade, by household socioeconomic status

Data collected from SY 98-99 through SY 99-00. Weighted by the ECLS-K cross-section full-sample parent weights: C1PWO, C2PWO, and C4PWO.
Chart: Munro RichardsonSource: Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 (ECLS-K)Get the dataCreated with Datawrapper