Saman Zafar2025-11-262025-11-262019https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/13004The current study is an effort to explore the areas of learning readiness in preschoolers by developing a regional scale on Learning Readiness. The relationship of learning readiness between government school children and children belonged to Shanty Town was also explored through this research. It was hypothesized that government school children will score low in learning readiness errors as compared to Shanty Town children. The research was carried out in IV phases i.e. exploring phenomenology, expert validation, pilot study and finally main study. The data was collected from the government school and shanty town school through Stratified Random Sampling. The measures of the current study comprised of The Learning Readiness Scale and Assessment Tool Kit. The results showed highly positive significant relationship of learning readiness errors with reading readiness English errors and reading readiness Urdu errors, however learning readiness errors had a no significant relationship with the language readiness and physical readiness errors in preschoolers. Findings of t-test showed that learning readiness errors were high in preschoolers belong to slum area as compared to preschoolers of Government Schools. However, gender different regarding learning readiness skills were not significant in results.en-USThesis