Table 3.
Correlations between kindergarten predictors and second and eighth grade reading comprehension scores (N = 433)
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Letter Identification | 1.00 | |||||||||||||
| 2. Phoneme Deletion | .46 | 1.00 | ||||||||||||
| 3. Rapid Naming | −.44 | −.43 | 1.00 | |||||||||||
| 4. Nonverbal IQ | .36 | .41 | −.36 | 1.00 | ||||||||||
| 5. Picture Vocabulary | .34 | .38 | −.36 | .37 | 1.00 | |||||||||
| 6. Oral Vocabulary | .36 | .46 | −.37 | .35 | .46 | 1.00 | ||||||||
| 7. Sentence Imitation | .39 | .61 | −.44 | .36 | .55 | .57 | 1.00 | |||||||
| 8. Grammatical Understanding | .47 | .51 | −.38 | .44 | .41 | .46 | .51 | 1.00 | ||||||
| 9. Grammatical Completion | .37 | .54 | −.42 | .35 | .50 | .54 | .65 | .50 | 1.00 | |||||
| 10. Narrative Expression | .20 | .25 | −.26 | .24 | .33 | .39 | .36 | .18 | .38 | 1.00 | ||||
| 11. Narrative Comprehension | .32 | .36 | −.37 | .24 | .33 | .40 | .41 | .27 | .50 | .36 | 1.00 | |||
| 12. Mother’s Education Level | .28 | .35 | −.29 | .30 | .30 | .36 | .35 | .35 | .31 | .24 | .21 | 1.00 | ||
| 13. 2nd Grade Reading Comprehension | .61 | .59 | −.52 | .53 | .47 | .56 | .61 | .53 | .57 | .35 | .42 | .41 | 1.00 | |
| 14. 8th Grade Reading Comprehension | .36 | .49 | −.51 | .48 | .45 | .53 | .56 | .54 | .56 | .28 | .41 | .39 | .70 | 1.00 |
All p < .001