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Early Literacy Activities
Table S33.  Standard errors for the percentage of prekindergarten children ages 3–5 who participated in home literacy activities with a family member three or more times in the preceding week, by poverty status: 1993 and 2005

  Read to
  Told a story
  Taught letters,
words, or numbers
  Taught songs
or music
Poverty status 1993 2005   1993 2005   1993 2005   1993 2005

Poor 1.6 1.9   1.8 2.7   2.0 2.1   2.1 2.4
Near-poor 1.5 1.7   1.6 2.2   1.6 2.2   1.3 2.3
Nonpoor 0.8 0.7   1.3 1.3   1.1 1.2   1.3 1.4

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, School Readiness Survey of the 1993 National Household Education Surveys Program (NHES) and Early Childhood Program Participation Survey of the 2005 NHES, previously unpublished tabulation (October 2005).

 
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