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Book details
  • Genre:EDUCATION
  • SubGenre:Early Childhood
  • Language:English
  • Pages:128
  • eBook ISBN:9798350975444
  • Paperback ISBN:9798350975437

Get Your Child Ready for Kindergarten (and Start Early)

A Kindergarten Teacher Explains What to Expect and How to Prepare

by Jennifer Minogue M.Ed.

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Overview
Written by an experienced kindergarten teacher, Get Your Child Ready for Kindergarten (and Start Early) provides simple strategies to prepare your child for an important milestone year, kindergarten. Learn about current kindergarten curriculum expectations. Discover ideas for fostering language, social and emotional development, motivational techniques, creating independence, communicating with your child's teacher, early intervention, choosing a pre-k, and more. Are you ready to get your child off to a great start in kindergarten? Learn what you can do as a parent to help your child achieve success.
Description

Like many parents, you may have wondered what you need to do to get your child off to a great start in kindergarten. Get Your Child Ready for Kindergarten (and Start Early): A Kindergarten Teacher Explains What to Expect and How to Prepare, was written by an experienced kindergarten teacher to help parents and children everywhere get prepared for that very special milestone year in school, kindergarten. The book covers not only current kindergarten curriculum expectations in all subject areas, but also includes ideas on how to foster language development, meet emotional and social needs, use motivational techniques, create independence, and introduce following routines/directions. Inside you will find tips on choosing a pre-k, communicating with your child's teacher and school, early intervention, information for families new to English, and the author's recommendations for favorite tried, true, and tested read alouds. Here you will find ideas and inexpensive steps that all parents can take to prepare children for their life as a student. Are you ready to get your child off to a great start in school? Preparation breeds confidence, and confidence breeds success (yes, even in kindergarten).

About the author
Before Jennifer Minogue, M.Ed., ever became a teacher and then a mom, she majored in Communication Arts (Journalism) with a minor in English at Hofstra University. Her first job was as a writer/copy editor for a small financial newspaper in New York City. At night she went back to graduate school to get her Masters in Education, with her goal being to share her love of literature and writing. Now married and a mom, Jennifer has been an elementary school teacher for almost 25 years. She loves spending time with her husband, daughters, and two dogs. In addition to teaching and writing, she likes to travel and exercise. She wrote this book to thoughtfully and thoroughly answer a question she is so often asked: "What does my child need to know for kindergarten?"