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Estrada, Anita, An Exploratory Study of the Relation-
ship Between Curiosity and Print Awareness of Four-Year-Old
Children. Doctor of Philosophy (Reading), December, 1988,
113 pp., 11 tables, bibliography, 71 titles.
This study has five chapters, organized in the follow-
ing manner: (1) Chapter I contains the introduction,
statement of the problem, purpose of the study, questions,
significance of the study, and definition of terms; (2)
Chapter II is a review of the literature; (3) Chapter III is
a description of subjects and tests and procedures for
treating the data; (4) Chapter IV contains the statistical
technique of the analysis and the findings related to the
questions, and (5) Chapter V consists of the summary,
findings, conclusions, and recommendations.
The problem of the study was to explore the relation-
ship between curiosity and print awareness among four-year-
old children. Subjects participating in the study were 71
four-year-old children from six licensed child care and
preschool settings located in different geographical
sections of a north central Texas city. The study included
thirty-four girls and thirty-seven boys. Instruments used
to collect the data were Kreitler, Zigler, and Kreitler's
battery of curiosity tasks and Goodman's Signs of the
Environment and Book Handling Knowledge tasks. Canonical
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