Links and Resources: Kindergarten Readiness/Transtitions

• Department of Public Instruction: NC Kindergarten Standard Course of Study
• Child Trends
• The National Center for the Early Development and Learning (NCEDL): Spotlights
• NCEDL: Transition to Kindergarten Manual
• Building Bridges to Kindergarten: Transition Planning for Children
• Off to School: A Parent's Eye View of the Kindergarten Year
• Children´s Social and Emotional Competence Critical to a Good Start in the Early Years of School: A report from the National Institute of Mental Health
• Ready for School! New Hope and Promise for NC's Children entering Kindergarten, an article in the NC Parenting Education Network written by NCPC 's Catherine Woodall and Sally Sloop ( pdf)
• Universal Pre-K Resources
• Principles and recommendations for early childhood assessments. Goal 1 Early Childhood Assessments Resource Group. Washington, DC: National Education Goals Panel, Shepard, L., Kagan, S. L., & Wurtz, E. (Eds.). (1998).
• National Education Goals Panel. (1998). Ready schools. Washington, DC: Author.
• Readiness for school: A survey of state policies and definitions. Early Childhood Research & Practice [On-line serial], 2(2), Saluja, G., Scott-Little, C., & Clifford, R. M. (2000).
• School readiness in North Carolina: Strategies for defining, measuring, and promoting success for all children. (2000). Greensboro, NC: SERVE.
• Kelly Maxwell's response to O'Sullivan and Germuth's paper on school readiness.

For more information please contact

Rose Powers
Program Administrator
860-2277