Preparing for Kindergarten

This resource helps parents ease their child’s transition to kindergarten with nine tips.

This provides a month by month guide to school readiness which includes skill development, health, and reading readiness.

This calendar is filled with ideas, activities and tips for you and your child to read, talk, and play every day!

This website contains information for parents and teachers about the K.I.D.S. Assessment required by the Illinois State Board of Education, as well as resources to help families prepare for kindergarten and a successful start in school.

These articles provide tips for parents to prepare themselves and their child for kindergarten.

• Saying Goodbye to Preschool and Hello to Kindergarten
• Ready or Not Kindergarten, Here we Come!
• Transitioning to Kindergarten
• Is the School Ready for Your Kindergartner?

This report presents data on the school readiness of children in the United States as reported by their parents in 2007. Topics addressed include the participation of young children in preschool or other types of center-based care or education arrangements, parental plans for kindergarten enrollment, and an assessment of what parents should do to prepare their children for kindergarten.

This guide defines a school-ready child as one that is prepared to learn successfully when beginning school. It gives examples of everyday activities parents can use to develop the traits and skills children need to be prepared to learn.

This article lists eight parenting practices that nurture children’s untold potential and readiness to learn.

This is a question and answer with Diane Schanzenbach, an education professor at Northwestern University, and Stephanie Larson, director of Rose Hall Montessori School regarding enrolling a child in kindergarten when eligible or delaying enrollment for a year.

NAEYC offers some tips beyond the basics of letter and number recognition or reading skills, to help you prepare your child for Kindergarten.

NAEYC offers some tips to guide your child through the move from preschool to kindergarten.

This provides information, education and resources regarding the transition to kindergarten.

Starting school can be scary and exciting for both you and your child. This article lists some ideas of things you can do to prepare both you and your child for kindergarten.

This toolkit, created by the AFT and the National Center for Learning Disabilities, includes tools and materials that will help early childhood educators implement strategies to facilitate this process and enhance children’s transition to kindergarten.