Table 5.

Correlations between composite scores (Time 2) and later reading and spelling.

Composites	Receptive language	Expressive language	Morphological awareness	Phonological awareness	Literacy skills
Reading accuracy	0.205	0.266	0.353	0.367	0.393
Decoding words	0.191	0.233	0.302	0.374	0.317
Reading fluency	0.252	0.200	0.211	0.379	0.311
Reading comprehension	0.417	0.361	0.314	0.364	0.342
Spelling	0.278	0.270	0.228	0.381	0.230