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Is Your Child Ready for Kindergarten?
Starting kindergarten is a big step – and an exciting rite of passage – for young children (and their ...
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How Do I Know If My Child Is Ready for Kindergarten?
We are often asked this question at Gesell Institute, and although we have been answering it for decades and have been ...
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What is School Readiness?
The term school readiness has been a hot topic in early childhood education for decades, as its definition has been ...
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What Does My Child's Stage of Development Have to do With His Readiness for School?
When children reach the age that makes them eligible to start school, there is suddenly an expectation that they should ...
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If My Child is Old Enough to Start School, Is there Any Reason to Wait?
Parents want their children to be successful in school. Teachers do too! However, not all children are ready for the ...
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What is "Developmental Age" Exactly?
Research shows us that certain behaviors, language, and intellectual abilities are typically characteristic of and ...
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What Happens to Developmentally Young Children?
A child is considered developmentally young if his or her overall behavior is typical of a child younger in age than ...
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How Will I Know When My Child is Ready to Start School?
Consideration of your child’s behavioral or developmental age is important when determining school readiness, ...
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If My Child is Ready to learn, Why Isn't He Ready for School?
Children are always ready to learn – even at birth – and children are always learning. However, despite an ...
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What Can I do to Get my Child Ready for Kindergarten?
Your role and responsibility in your child’s growth and development is very important. First realize, however, ...
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Preschool Learning: More than ABCs and 123s
New research shows that teaching preschoolers both academic and social-emotional skills leads to greater school...
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Just Right: The Developmentally Appropriate Classroom
Teachers in developmentally appropriate classrooms trust in children’s natural abilities and recognize their...
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Kindergarten Readiness Checklist
This is a short checklist that helps you keep track of skills that children have mastered as they move through the...
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The "Goldilocks Dilemma": Overplacement, Red-Shirting, or Just Right?
The term overplacement refers to a child being placed in an academic setting that is beyond or over the child’s...
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Kindergarten Entrance Age and Retention
It is no secret. Today’s schools are under great pressure. Under the No Child Left Behind Act all children are...
