To investigate the relationship between a kindergartner's prior experience with print and the child's scores on Marie Clay's Concepts About Print Test, a study examined 23 kindergarten students from an upper middle class neighborhood. A 27-item questionnaire was given to parents at the beginning of the school year, asking what their children knew about letters and words, how their children used these words in their play, how the parents supported their children's interest in reading, and what kind of words they were learning. The Stone: Concepts About Print Test (a 24-item instrument developed to assess a child's knowledge of print conventions such as correct book orientation, directionality of print, visual word boundaries, etc.) was administered individually during the first 3 weeks of school. Results indicated that print awareness can be predicted by measures of prior experience with print in the home. (Three tables of data are included, and the parent questionnaire and the scoring standards for the Clay Concepts About Print Test are appended.) (MM)