Table 2.
Correlations between word reading fluency construct, naming speed, phonological awareness, morphological awareness, syntax awareness, and vocabulary measures, in first grade (N = 68) and third grade (N = 67).
| First grade |
Third grade |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |||
| 1 | Word reading fluency | |||||||||||||||
| 2 | RAN digits | -0.50∗∗ | -0.56∗∗ | |||||||||||||
| 3 | RAN letters | -0.47∗∗ | 0.70∗∗ | -0.37∗∗ | 0.58∗∗ | |||||||||||
| 4 | RAN objects | -0.39∗∗ | 0.68∗∗ | 0.52∗∗ | -0.37∗∗ | 0.62∗∗ | 0.53∗∗ | |||||||||
| 5 | PA – syllable omission | 0.25∗ | -0.11 | -0.17 | -0.20 | 0.48∗∗ | -0.37 ∗∗ | -0.21 | -0.13 | |||||||
| 6 | MA – possessive nouns | 0.33∗∗ | -0.15 | -0.16 | -0.17 | 0.14 | 0.30∗ | 0.05 | 0.04 | 0.01 | 0.12 | |||||
| 7 | Syntax awareness | 0.40∗∗ | -0.12 | -0.10 | -0.02 | 0.25∗ | 0.47∗∗ | 0.30∗ | -0.07 | -0.15 | -0.19 | 0.31∗ | 0.54∗∗ | |||
| 8 | Vocabulary | 0.40∗∗ | 0.01 | -0.00 | -0.02 | 0.42∗∗ | 0.55∗∗ | 0.56∗∗ | 0.36∗∗ | -0.26∗ | -0.11 | -0.13 | 0.32∗∗ | 0.37∗∗ | 0.44∗∗ | |
∗p < 0.05;∗∗p < 0.01.