Table 2.

Correlations between compositional and handwriting fluency variables for Grade 4.

		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
1	Topic	—	.33***	.30***	−.19*	.04	.03	.03	.04	−.09	−.07	.12	.21**
2	Logical ordering of ideas	.04	—	.73***	−.06	.11	.52***	.44***	.15	−.02	.04	.41***	.43***
3	Number of key elements	.22**	.76***	—	−.15*	.12	.48***	.44***	.19*	.02	−.02	.41***	.52***
4	Mean length of T-units	−.02	−.22**	−.18*	—	.28***	−.04	−.09	.05	.13	−.11	−.07	−.02
5	Clause density	.03	.16*	.07	.36***	—	.06	.00	.11	.22**	−.18*	−.02	.21**
6	Total number of words	.13	.68***	.50***	.03	.45***	—	.90***	.26**	.08	.09	.35***	.36***
7	# of different words	.15	.69***	.51***	.04	.45***	.96***	—	.23**	.07	.14	.25**	.34***
8	# of phonological error	−.02	.13	.07	.10	.13	.29***	.28***	—	.18*	.16*	.07	.10
9	# of orthographical errors	.06	.09	−.02	−.07	−.09	.07	.08	.19*	—	.10	.10	.08
10	# of period errors	.05	−.05	.00	.12	.12	.02	.02	−.07	−.02	—	−.06	−.01
11	Stroke printing fluency	−.12	.33***	.12	.02	.26**	.47***	.43***	.35***	.13	−.15	—	.44***
12	Sentence copying fluency	.12	.34***	.33***	−.05	.11	.39***	.39***	.05	−.05	−.04	.44***	—

N = 160. Sample A are in the upper diagonals, Sample B are in the lower diagonals.

^*p < .05;

^**p < .01;

^***p < .001