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Academic Skills
Home » Early Learning » Kindergarten Readiness » Academic SkillsPosted by Your Guide on March 3, 2006 10:29 PM
Kindergarten readiness is such a multi-layered term, that teachers often break down the task of measuring readiness into different categories, such as cognitive abilities, physical abilities, and academic abilities. The cognitive and physical abilities are easily recognized with or without a formal test. Parents need to know that even though formal tests are available, they can watch for some abilities at home as well.
If your child shows progress toward, or consistent success in these pre-academic skills, it demonstrates their progress toward kindergarten readiness.
Can your child:
• Speak clearly and be understood by others?
• Speak in complete sentences that are more than three or four words long?
• Count to 10?
• Recognize their own name when it is printed?
• Attempt to write their name?
• Tell a story about something that happened to them?
• Recognize some letters of the alphabet (recognizing all 26 letters of the alphabet is not required.)
• Understand a picture story book even if that book contains no words?
Remember to pay attention to your child’s abilities over a period of time. Children learn so quickly that what they have not mastered this week may be something they can do easily next week or next month. It is also important to remember that very few children enter kindergarten exhibiting every kindergarten readiness skill. It is important for parents to remember that the goal of kindergarten is to teach the skills necessary for success in the school grades that follow.
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