Academic Readiness Goals to Work On

Fine Motor Skills

•    Puzzles
•    Buttons and Zippers
•    Writing name and other letters
•    Visual matching activities (match shapes, letters, numbers)
•    Identifying and copying basic shapes (horizontal and vertical lines, circles, squares, triangles)

Language

•    Vocabulary development both receptive and expressive
•    Learn colour names
•    Learn the name of various body parts (“point to your _____”)
•    Spatial terms (e.g. in, on, under, between, over, in front of etc.)
•    Encourage and model how to ask questions (what, when, where, why, how, who)
•    Listening to a simple story
•    Retelling a simple story (with a beginning, middle and end)
•    Simple sentences (expand on words said, if the child says “flower” say “Yes, that is a pretty yellow flower.”)

Number Concepts

•    Count by ones from 1-10, 10-20 etc.
•    Understand common descriptive terms (big, bigger, small, smaller, little, most, a few)
•    Concept of ‘half’
•    One-to-one correspondence