Sentences with phrase «skills at kindergarten entry»

Predicting self - regulation and vocabulary and academic skills at kindergarten entry: The roles of maternal parenting stress and mother - child closeness.

Math skills at kindergarten entry (the ability to recognize numbers, problem solve, use reasoning skills, and apply knowledge) are increasingly seen as an even better predictor of later academic success than early reading ability.

In their widely cited 2007 study of large longitudinal data sets, University of California Irvine, education professor Greg Duncan and his colleagues found that in a comparison of math, literacy, and social - emotional skills at kindergarten entry, «early math concepts, such as knowledge of numbers and ordinality, were the most powerful predictors of later learning.»

Not exact matches

Catherine Snow: Incorporating Rich Language in Early Education Educations Funders Researchers Initiative, November 18, 2013 «Taking on the task of improving reading skills, for all children and especially for those scoring at the bottom of the skill distribution, requires three simple things: first, we must provide all children with experiences designed to ensure a broad knowledge base and rich language before entry to kindergarten; second, we must redesign post-primary instruction to focus on discussion, analysis, critique, and synthesis; and third, we must redirect resources from testing children to assessing what is actually going on inside classrooms,» writes Professor Catherine Snow.

The researchers will follow children from kindergarten entry to second grade and will investigate the effects of the reading curriculum on their vocabulary skills, listening comprehension, domain knowledge, and ultimately reading comprehension at the end of second grade.

This project helped to demonstrate whether a program developed specifically to give at - risk children a boost in school readiness skills before kindergarten entry would be effective for children in this population.