Table 3.

Correlations between compositional and handwriting fluency variables for Grade 4.

		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
1	Topic	—	.22**	.18*	−.01	−.01	−.22**	−.23**	.08	.02		.08	−.09
2	Logical ordering of ideas	.40***	—	.72***	−.19*	−.10	.46***	.39***	.14	.20**		.00	.00
3	Number of key elements	.42***	.82***	—	−.25**	−.19*	.49***	.44***	.08	.27***		−.02	.02
4	Mean length of T-units	−.01	−.14	−.17*	—	.47***	.00	.03	−.05	−.09		.05	−.01
5	Clause density	−.04	−.11	−.10	.43***	—	.06	.10	.06	−.13		−.01	−.07
6	Total number of words	.03	.53***	.47***	.22**	.10	—	.95***	.23**	.20**		−.03	.07
7	# of different words	.01	.51***	.47***	.19*	.13	.94***	—	.22**	.15		−.04	.05
8	# of phonological error	.03	.04	.09	−.05	−.20*	.04	.01	—	.24**		.07	.05
9	# of orthographical errors	−.06	.05	.01	−.06	−.13	−.01	−.04	.15*	—		−.02	.05
10	# of period errors	.03	.06	.00	.15*	.05	−.03	−.02	−.04	−.03	—
11	Stroke printing fluency	.16*	.10	.10	−.12	.00	.05	.02	−.03	−.05	−.08	—	.56***
12	Sentence copying fluency	.20**	.09	.07	.00	.01	.09	.07	−.09	−.07	.03	.56***	—

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

^*p < .05;

^**p < .01;

^***p < .001