The major purposes of this study were (1) to determine if a listening comprehension test was as valid as a reading readiness test, a visual motor test, a group intelligence test, or an individual intelligence test in measuring the reading readiness of first grade pupils; and (2) to determine if a combination of two or more of these tests would yield a significantly higher correlation with reading achievement scores than any one test taken individually would yield. During the first six weeks of the school year, 52 first graders in two classes were administered the Metropolitan Readiness Test, the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale, the SRA Primary Mental Abilities Test, the Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test, and the Durrell Listening-Reading Test. In the last week of April all students were tested with the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Test. The results indicated that the listening comprehension test can be used in predicting first grade reading achievement as well as the other tests used in this study. Also, no one predictor was found to be significantly better than any other as a predictor of success on vocabulary. (Author/WR)