How can parents and caregivers help prepare children for a Kindergarten Readiness Assessment?
Kindergarten Readiness Skills
What are the basic kindergarten readiness skills? The skills your child will need to have before he or she enters kindergarten will cover a range that includes social,physical academic and life skills. Answers vary by school, but most educators agree that these are all part of the list:
- Being able to talk in sentences
- Recognizing authority
- The ability to follow rules and directions
- The ability to manage bathroom needs and dress him/herself
- He/she can sit still long enough to listen to a story
- Counting to ten
- Knowing basic colors
- Recognizes shapes and can sort them by size, color and shape
- Can use crayons and pencil correctly (for many children learning to use scissors happens in kindergarten)
- Can skip, walk backward and hop on one foot
- Is able to bounce and then catch a ball
- Knows common body parts such as elbow, knees, shoulders, etc.
- knows alphabet, or has rudimentary knowledge of it
There are other skills that help also such as the ability to share and socialize and individual schools may add others but these cover many of them.
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