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  Concept of ‘half’

Ø  One-to-one correspondence