Table 5.
Cognitive predictors of the change in spelling errors during the interventions (N = 46)
| Change in phonological errors | Change in morphological errors | Change in orthographical errors | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ΔR2 | β | ΔR2 | β | ΔR2 | β | ||
| Step 1 | .212* | .094 | .215* | ||||
| Phonological awareness | 0.053 | 0.023 | 0.057 | ||||
| Rapid automatized naming | −0.010 | −0.004 | −0.011 | ||||
| Verbal working memory | 0.200 | 0.217 | 0.187 | ||||
| Step 2 | .139** | .117* | .139** | ||||
| Phonological awareness | 0.024 | −0.005 | 0.027 | ||||
| Rapid automatized naming | −0.005 | < 0.000 | −0.007 | ||||
| Verbal working memory | 0.166 | 0.183 | 0.151 | ||||
| Semantics | 0.024** | 0.24* | 0.025** | ||||
| Total R2adj | .285** | .132* | .290** | ||||
*p < .05. **p < .01. ***p < .001