Academic Readiness Goals to Work On

Fine Motor Skills

Ø      Puzzles

Ø      Buttons and Zippers

Ø      Writing name and other letters

Ø      Visual matching activities (match shapes, letters, numbers)

Ø      Identifying and copying basic shapes (horizontal and vertical lines, circles, squares, triangles)

Language

Ø      Vocabulary development both receptive and expressive

Ø      Learn colour names

Ø      Learn the name of various body parts (“point to your _____”)

Ø      Spatial terms (e.g. in, on, under, between, over, in front of etc.)

Ø      Encourage and model how to ask questions (what, when, where, why, how, who)

Ø      Listening to a simple story

Ø      Retelling a simple story (with a beginning, middle and end)

Ø      Simple sentences (expand on words said, if the child says “flower” say “Yes, that is a pretty yellow flower.”)

Number Concepts

Ø      Count by ones from 1-10, 10-20 etc.

Ø      Understand common descriptive terms (big, bigger, small, smaller, little, most, a few)

Ø One-to-one correspondence

Ø      Concept of ‘half’