Kindergarten
Help your child have a successful kindergarten year.
Skills to Begin Kindergarten
Learn the skills five-year olds need when beginning kindergarten.
Learn the skills five-year olds need when beginning kindergarten.
What Kindergarteners Learn
What your five-year old will learn in kindergarten.
What your five-year old will learn in kindergarten.
Precursors to Reading
Help your child enter kindergarten ready to read.
Help your child enter kindergarten ready to read.
Language Development in the Elementary Years
What parents can do to enrich children's language development during the elementary years.
What parents can do to enrich children's language development during the elementary years.
Steps to Developing Language Fluency in Young Children
Questions Parents should ask when Developing their Child’s Literary Skills. A step-by-step guide to developing your young child's language and reading fluency from guest author, Nicole Brekelbaum.
Questions Parents should ask when Developing their Child’s Literary Skills. A step-by-step guide to developing your young child's language and reading fluency from guest author, Nicole Brekelbaum.
Learning to Read - Ideas and Activities to Learn About Print and Books
Of course you will want to read to your child, even in the elementary years. You should encourage your child to read independently also. Buy as many books for your child as you can afford; and, supplement her own favorites at home with fresh selections from the library. Your child's own magazine subscription is also a fun way to reinforce print reading.
Of course you will want to read to your child, even in the elementary years. You should encourage your child to read independently also. Buy as many books for your child as you can afford; and, supplement her own favorites at home with fresh selections from the library. Your child's own magazine subscription is also a fun way to reinforce print reading.
Learning to Read - Ideas and Activities to Build Spoken Language
Children need a strong foundation of spoken language during the preschool and school-age years. Think of all they ways that your child learns language through play. Encourage these activities at home to build spoken language.
Children need a strong foundation of spoken language during the preschool and school-age years. Think of all they ways that your child learns language through play. Encourage these activities at home to build spoken language.
Beginning Kindergarten: A Bittersweet Milestone
How to make it through your child's transition to kindergarten!
How to make it through your child's transition to kindergarten!
Kindergarten Readiness is More than Child Readiness
Parents' natural concerns about children's kindergarten readiness have intensified with the trend toward a more 'academic' kindergarten. Early childhood educators now know that schools need to be ready for the wide variations we know exist in kindergarten-age children.
Parents' natural concerns about children's kindergarten readiness have intensified with the trend toward a more 'academic' kindergarten. Early childhood educators now know that schools need to be ready for the wide variations we know exist in kindergarten-age children.
Prepare for Elementary School Success - It's Not About the ABC's
Kindergarten teachers know, and research confirms, what a child needs to have a successful kindergarten year. It's not how well he knows the ABC's or whether she can write her name. Parents can help their young child come to kindergarten with the crucial skills for school success.
Kindergarten teachers know, and research confirms, what a child needs to have a successful kindergarten year. It's not how well he knows the ABC's or whether she can write her name. Parents can help their young child come to kindergarten with the crucial skills for school success.
Is My Child Ready?
Article and resources for parents who are making the decision about starting their child in kindergarten.
Article and resources for parents who are making the decision about starting their child in kindergarten.
Your Kindergarten Child
Helpful information for parents about kindergarten from Family Education Network.
Helpful information for parents about kindergarten from Family Education Network.
Kindergarten Skills
Links to learning games for kindergarten academics from Internet4Classrooms.
Links to learning games for kindergarten academics from Internet4Classrooms.