This inventory is designed to assess the degree to which adults who are illiterate possess some of the more commonly acknowledged requisites to learning to read. Instructions for administering the inventory are provided in enough detail to insure a reasonably accurate assessment of visual discrimination and select cognitive abilities. The inventory may be given to groups of students, and the directions assume a classroom situation with 20 or less students who speak English as their native language; however, with slight modifications, the inventory may be administered on an individual basis. The inventory takes about 45 minutes to complete. Fourteen pages of the inventory contain enlargements that are needed for the Visual Memory--Objects in Isolation Test. Scoring is accomplished by recording the number of correct responses over the total possible correct for each of the tests, as indicated on the scoring sheet that is provided. No norms are available for the inventory. The Test of Readiness for Literacy is made up of the following sections: I. Following one-step directions; II. Following two-step directions; III. Left-right; IV. Same-different; V. First-second-third-last; VI. Visual discrimination; VII. Visual memory; and VIII. Cognition. (DB)