Kindergarten children literacy ability improvement without COVID-19 school closures: 13.9 points (from Jan 1st - Sep 1st)

Predicted literacy improvement with COVID-19 school closures (starting March 16th): 9.5 points

Literacy rate for child whose parents read to them everyday during summer: β2 = 2.94 ± 0.83 points per 100 days (47% higher than the children whose parents cannot do so)

Literacy rate for children whose parents never read to them: β2 = − 1.42 ± 4.83 points per 100 days

Overall predicted that kindergarten children will have 67% less literacy ability due to COVID-19 school closures.