Confrontation Naming and Reading Abilities at Primary School: A Longitudinal Study

Table 3

Bivariate correlations between BNT, IQ, and reading abilities at each school year.

	Year	Nonverbal IQ	Story Syll.s/sec	Words Syll.s/sec	Pseudowords Syll.s/sec	Story errors	Words errors	Pseudowords errors	Comprehension
			Pearson’s			Spearman’s rho
Boston Naming Test scores	I	0.338	0.321	NA	NA	−0.241°	NA	NA	0.475
	II	0.248	0.309	0.155	0.020	−0.237°	−0.294°	−0.104	0.425
	III	0.423	0.457	0.282°	0.215°	−0.240°	−0.319	−0.211°	0.469
	IV	0.369	0.404	0.305	0.259°	−0.157	−0.284°	−0.207°	0.508
	V	0.402	0.419	0.386	0.235°	−0.173	−0.125	−0.219°	0.426

NA = not administered because word and pseudoword reading tests are available only from the second year onwards.
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