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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Read Writ. 2011 Feb 1;24(2):203–220. doi: 10.1007/s11145-010-9266-7

Table 2.

Correlations between compositional and handwriting fluency variables for first-grade sample

1. Topic 1
2. Logical ordering of ideas .35 1
3. Number of key elements .33 .58 1
4. Mean length of T-units .32 .09 .08 1
5. Clause density .21 .30 .25 .57 1
6. Total number of words .16 .21 .28 .13 .28 1
7. Number of different words .15 .25 .28 .18 .27 .92 1
8. Number of spelling errors −.03 .07 .22 −.03 .14 .38 .38 1
9. Number of capitalization errors −.25 −.22 −.02 −.34 −.25 .27 .25 .50 1
10. Number of period errors −.23 −.35 −.09 −.14 −.09 .25 .19 .22 .54 1
11. Alphabet printing fluency .05 .18 .17 .15 .14 .19 .23 −.09 −.17 −.13 1
12. Sentence copying fluency .16 .24 .33 .19 .23 .27 .29 .04 −.15 −.11 .39 1

N = 98

Values greater than .19 are significant at p < .05