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Tips for Kindergarten Readiness and Reading

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Interested in helping your Kindergartener succeed?

 Read more at  Lake County Kids Magazine: Look up "Family Matters with Amber" page.

I published here the table of contents of The Family Guide to Understanding Early Literacy for two reasons-

1- So that you would know what's in the booklet (and how valuable a resource it is-click  here to download)

 2- So you would see that it's not as intimidating as you might imagine it to be, with just a page or two per each section, it's laid out for you to be able to use easily

Please check it out, it's simple and informational. (scroll half way down the page and click on 'pdf' next to "A Family Guide to Understanding Early Reading Skills".

Table of Contents
The Importance of Reading....................................................................3
Evaluating Early Reading........................................................................4
What is the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment–Literacy (KRA-L)? ...4
How is the KRA-L given? .......................................................................5 
Activities .........................................................................................5
What do the results mean? ....................................................................7 
How you can help your child..................................................................7 
Frequently asked questions ...................................................................9
Books for parents! ................................................................................10 
Answering who, what, when, why and how questions ...............10 
Sentence repetition......................................................................11 
Rhyming identification .................................................................11 
Rhyming production.....................................................................11 
Identifying letters of the alphabet ................................................11 
Beginning sounds of words .........................................................11
Online resources...................................................................................12 
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