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    School Readiness Checklist: 34 Questions That Help You Decide If Your Child Is Ready For School

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    This document contains a 34-item checklist to help determine if a child is ready for school. It covers skills in the areas of self-regulation, following instructions, social skills, attention, memory, sequencing, motor coordination, language, pre-reading, and pre-numeracy. Parents are asked to rate how often their child demonstrates each skill as always, sometimes, or never. Example items include whether the child can follow multi-step instructions, concentrate on tasks, count to 10, recognize letters, and understand concepts like same/different. The checklist aims to evaluate school readiness across several key developmental domains.

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    This document contains a 34-item checklist to help determine if a child is ready for school. It covers skills in the areas of self-regulation, following instructions, social skills, attention, memory, sequencing, motor coordination, language, pre-reading, and pre-numeracy. Parents are asked to rate how often their child demonstrates each skill as always, sometimes, or never. Example items include whether the child can follow multi-step instructions, concentrate on tasks, count to 10, recognize letters, and understand concepts like same/different. The checklist aims to evaluate school readiness across several key developmental domains.

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    This document contains a 34-item checklist to help determine if a child is ready for school. It covers skills in the areas of self-regulation, following instructions, social skills, attention, memory, sequencing, motor coordination, language, pre-reading, and pre-numeracy. Parents are asked to rate how often their child demonstrates each skill as always, sometimes, or never. Example items include whether the child can follow multi-step instructions, concentrate on tasks, count to 10, recognize letters, and understand concepts like same/different. The checklist aims to evaluate school readiness across several key developmental domains.

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    School Readiness Checklist: 34 Questions That Help You Decide If Your Child Is Ready For School

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    School Readiness Checklist

    34 Questions that help you decide if your child is ready for school

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    SELF REGULATION / EMOTIONAL MATURITY


    1 Can they recognise and express their feelings and
    needs?
    2 Do they deal well with frustration?
    3 Can they make an independent decision and follow
    through on it?
    4 Do they have ideas of their own?
    FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS
    5 Can they follow two or three instructions? E.g. “pick
    up your shirt, put it in the laundry basket and sit at
    the table for breakfast”
    6 Can they move on to new activities easily?
    SOCIAL SKILLS
    7 Do they show interest in other kids?
    8 Do they interact with other children appropriately?
    9 Do they respond well to adults?
    ATTENTION
    10 Can they concentrate on a task?
    MEMORY
    11 Can they easily remember songs & nursery rhymes?
    12 Can they remember names easily?
    SEQUENCING
    13 Can they organise their thoughts to tell a simple
    story?
    14 Can they count?
    15 Can they say the days of the week?
    16 Do they have problems following the sequence of
    events in a simple story read to them?

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    MOTOR CO-ORDINATION
    17 Can they dress and undress themselves?
    18 Can they unwrap their lunch?
    19 Are they able to use a pencil and scissors?
    LANGUAGE SKILLS
    20 Do they use vocabulary similar to others of the same
    age?
    21 Can they recall the word they need from their
    memory?
    22 Can they construct complex sentences (using words
    like because, so, but, and, or, to join ideas within a
    sentence)?
    23 Do they follow the rules of conversation as well as
    others of the same age (for example, they respond
    to questions, they take turns in conversations, they
    stay on topic)?
    24 Are they unable to express themselves without
    becoming frustrated, upset or aggressive?
    PRE-READING SKILLS
    25 Are they able to recite the alphabet from A- Z
    without help?
    26 Can they understand and produce rhymes?
    27 Do they understand that letters represent sounds?
    28 Can they write their own name?
    PRE-NUMERACY SKILLS
    29 Can they count up to 10 or more without help?
    30 Do they understand one-on-one counting? (they can
    count to 5 and point to each finger on their hand as
    they count?)
    31 Can they sort different objects into separate piles by
    colour, size and shape?
    32 Do they understand “same & different”?
    33 Can they recognise written numbers and say them?
    (they see the number 3 and say “three”).
    34 Do they understand quantity concepts (more/less,
    big/small)?

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