This basic Kindergarten Readiness Checklist is available to parents as a guideline of expectancies. It is not a mandatory list of what each child must accomplish prior to kindergarten.
Each skill is defined as “MASTERED”, “PROGRESS SHOWN”, or “NOT MASTERED.”
The checklist for you to use as a reference when preparing to send your child to Kindergarten:
Self-Help/Social Skills:
Can use the bathroom independently
Can dress self (button, zipper, snap, put on coat)
Can follow two-step directions
Can stay on “teacher-directed” task for 5 minutes
Can follow classroom rules
Can appropriately express their own needs, feelings, and opinions
Can appropriately respond to the needs, feelings, and opinions of others
Has self-motivation and persistence
Forms supportive relationships with peers and other adults
Fine/Gross Motor Skills:
Can use proper pencil grip
Can use scissors correctly
Can use alternate feet to climb steps
Language/Literacy Skills:
Has an understanding of the concept of the printed letter
Can recognize, write, and identify letters in first name
Can speak in complete sentences
Can rhyme words
Can handle books properly/has book awareness
Can identify environmental print
Can identify that letters make sounds
Can retell a story or poem/finger play
Math/Science Skills:
Can Count 1 to 10
Can do one-to-one correspondence
Can duplicate simple patterns
Understands spatial relationships
Expands knowledge of and abilities to observe, describe and discuss the natural world, materials, living
things, and natural processes
Can identify basic shapes (circle, square, triangle, rectangle, other…)
Can identify colors (red, blue, yellow, green, white, black, purple, pink, brown, orange)
Can recognize numbers (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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