Academic Readiness Indicators
Source: Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall
Topics: Kindergarten Readiness, School and Academics, Middle Years (5-9), Is My Child Ready for Kindergarten?
- Reciting the order of the alphabet; singing the alphabet song
- Pointing to alphabet letters as they are named
- Naming letters of the alphabet speedily and accurately
- Identifying rhyming words; adding a rhyming word where appropriate in a story
- Identifying which dictated words begin with a given sound, the same sound, or different sounds
- Clapping to the number of syllables heard in a word
- Segmenting dictated words into individual syllables and sounds; blending syllables and sounds into words
- Discriminating the position of sounds in words
- Naming common colors, shapes, objects, body parts, and signs (such as McDonald's and Coca-Cola)
- Comprehending age-appropriate vocabulary
- Recognizing and writing one's name
- Copying designs (circle, cross, square, X, triangle)
- Copying letters and simple words
- Telling one's full name, address, telephone number, and birthday
- Reciting familiar nursery rhymes
- Completing sequences (breakfast, lunch, _____ ; yesterday, today, _____ )
- Completing analogies (in daytime it is light, at night it is _____ : birds fiy, fish _____ )
- Responding to various question forms (how many, where, who, what, why, what if, which)
- Telling simple stories
- Succeeding at simple concentration-type games requiring matching pictures from memory
- Attending to a task for a reasonable period of time until done (such as a simple puzzle, listening to a story, a clay project)
- Developing friendships and playing cooperatively
- Succeeding on readiness tests that, in addition to the above skills, sample: vocabulary use, number concepts (more-less, matching sets, counting to ten, beginning-middle-end, first-second-third), numeral recognition to ten, sentence memory and comprehension, opposites, visual discrimination, following two- and three-step directions, categorization, substituting initial and final sounds in words, and general knowledge
Excerpted From:
Excerpt from Learning Disabilities: The Interaction of Students and their Environments, by C.R. Smith, 2004 edition, p. 40.
© 2004, Merrill, an imprint of Pearson Education Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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