KINDERGARTEN Readiness Checklist

This checklist is designed to help you prepare your child for school. Before you begin, remember:

• Each day your child is learning as you talk, play and work together.

• Readiness is a combination of age, individual growth, and experience.

• Your child will develop at his or her own rate; however, your involvement will promote readiness.

• Your child will learn by doing.

• Play is an essential part of learning.

Skills that will help your child be prepared for kindergarten include being able to:

• Give the following information:

  • Full Name

  • Age

  • Birthday

  • Address

  • Telephone number

  • Parent’s name

• Listen to stories without interrupting

• Pay attention for short periods of time to adult-directed tasks

• Understand actions have both causes and effects

• Cut with scissors

• Trace basic shapes, letters, numbers, and objects

• Share with others

• Follow rules

• Recognize authority

• Manage bathroom needs

• Button shirt, pants, coat

• Zip up zippers

• Tie shoes

• Use self-control

• Separate from parents without being upset

• Speak understandably

• Talk in complete sentences of five or more words

• Look at pictures and tell stories

• Identify rhyming words

• Identify the beginning sounds of words

• Identify uppercase and lowercase letters

• Recognize common sight words like “the, and, in, it, is”

• Recognize environmental print

• Sort similar objects by color, size, and shape

• Recognize groups of one, two, three, four, and five objects

• Count, recognize, and write numbers to ten

• Bounce a ball

• Skip, hop, jump, and gallop

• Print name using upper and lowercase letters (ex: John Smith)