Preparing Children To Kindergarten

Preparing Children To Kindergarten.
US children entering kindergarten do worse on tests when they're from poorer families with bring expectations and less focal point on reading, computer use and preschool attendance, supplemental research suggests. The findings point to the importance of doing more to prepare children for kindergarten, said mull over co-author Dr Neal Halfon, director of the Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities at the University of California, Los Angeles. "The best intelligence is that there are some kids doing really well.

And there are a lot of seemingly disadvantaged kids who achieve much beyond what might be predicted for them because they have parents who are managing to produce them what they need". At issue: What do kids need to succeed? The researchers sought to understand deeply into statistics to better understand the role of factors like poverty. "We didn't want to just manner at poor kids versus rich kids, or poor versus all others".

The researchers wanted to assess whether it's actually true - as intuition would suggest - that "you'll do better if you get be familiar with to more, you go to preschool more, you have more regular routines and you have more-educated parents". The researchers examined results of a look of 6600 US English- and Spanish-speaking children who were born in 2001. The kids took math and reading tests when they entered kindergarten, and their parents answered assess questions.