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How Can I Prepare My Child for Kindergarten?
Parent Center:  Good content divided into components; each component has excellent, simple activities and/or tips

•             Focus on your child’s social life
•             Boost his self-awareness
•             Expand his mind
•             Encourage nimbleness
•             Surround him with words
•             Tour the school

Getting School Ready Pamphlet (PDF)
Getting School Ready Project, Seattle/King County, Washington
Reader-friendly pamphlet with great visuals and simple text explaining what parents and teachers can do to help children get ready for school and what schools can do to meet the needs of children; written from the child’s perspective
Click here for the Spanish version (PDF)

Books to Share with children getting ready for kindergarten
Annotated bibliography of children’s books
Illinois Early Learning Project

Illinois Early Learning Project
Tips in question-and-answer format about getting ready for kindergarten
Readiness: Children and Schools
Illinois Early Learning Project

Zero to Three:  Language and Literacy
Suggestions for building language and literacy in very young children; also provides other resources

National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)( PDF)
Provides a position statement on where NAEYC stands on school readiness

Articles

• Admission Testing (PDF)
  
  
• Back to School (PDF)
  
  
• Back to School 2 (PDF)
  
  
• Beginning Geometry (PDF)
  
  
• Books for the Transition to School (PDF)
  
  
• Building Responsibility (PDF)
  
  
• Building the Reading Brain (PDF)
  
  
• Building Young Writers (PDF)
  
  
• Building Responsibility (PDF)
  
  
• Characteristics of Success (PDF)
  
  
• Children and Computers (PDF)

• Creating a Writing Culture (PDF)
  
  
• Early Science -- How things work (PDF)
  
  
• Encouraging an Interest in Geography (PDF)
  
  
• Encouraging Math and Science Interest (PDF)
  
  
• Encouraging Early Writing (PDF)
  

• Homework (PDF)
  
  
• Introducing Money (PDF)
  
  
• Invented Spelling (PDF)
  
  
• Learning to Count (PDF)
  
  
• Learning Environment (PDF)
  
  
• Math Activities (PDF)
  
  
• More Back to School Routines (PDF)
  
  
• Maximizing Reading Outload (PDF)
  
  
• Maximizing Reading to Children (PDF)
  
  
• Measurement (PDF)
  

• Oral Language (PDF)
  
  
• Patterns (PDF)
  
  
• Phonemic Awareness -- Rhyming (PDF)
  
  
• Problem Solving (PDF)
  
  
• READY for SCHOOL for Babies I (PDF)
  
  
• READY for SCHOOL for Babies II (PDF)
  
  
• Reading Readiness (PDF)
  
  
• Scientific Thought (PDF)
  
  
• School Readiness Myths (PDF)
  
  
• School Skills (PDF)
  
  
• Sorting (PDF)
  
  
• Stages of Children's Writing (PDF)
  
  
• Tips for Staff - Stages of Writing (PDF)
  
  
• Tips for Staff - Transitions (PDF)
  
  
• What is School Readiness (PDF)
  

• Writing Numerals (PDF)