Table 3.

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

1 Topic	1
2 Logical ordering of ideas	.15	1
3 Number of key elements	.13	.01	1
4 Mean length of T-units	.09	−.00	−.17	1
5 Clause density	−.06	−.01	−.08	.67	1
6 Total number of words	.20	−.06	.08	.17	.01	1
7 Number of different words	.19	.01	.04	.11	−.06	.94	1
8 Number of spelling errors	.03	−.25	.11	.01	.12	.09	.06	1
9 Number of capitalization errors	−.01	−.19	.06	−.15	−.10	.13	.20	.34	1
10 Number of period errors	−.04	−.28	−.04	−.26	−.19	.17	.23	.28	.76	1
11 Alphabet printing fluency	.03	.19	.11	−.00	−.10	.44	.43	−.18	.02	.05	1
12 Sentence copying fluency	.16	.29	.16	−.03	−.11	.51	.51	−.07	.00	.00	.50	1

N = 88

Values greater than .22 are significant at p < .05