What Your Preschooler Needs to Know
Get Ready for Kindergarten
Introduction
Ah, the happy years before school, the carefree time before that dreaded day when the young child becomes, as Shakespeare put it:
The whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school.
For children who are ready for the school experience, kindergarten and first grade can be exceedingly happy and absorbing times. No creeping unwillingly for them! But that certainly isn’t true of children who are not ready. Usually they will not enjoy the challenging early years of schooling. And even their futures might be compromised, since researchers have determined that children who have fallen behind in first grade tend not to catch up academically. As a consequence, the educational importance of the early years, from 2 to 5, has become increasingly well-known by psychologists and policy makers, and recently by the general public. State legislatures are beginning to offer universal preschool programs, available to all children.
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