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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


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