1. Kalispell Public Schools Early Childhood Education Forum
Successful Transitions to Kindergarten
May 22, 2012
6:30-8:30

2. Welcome!
Early Childhood Forum Mission: To build a common understanding of early childhood development and its relationship to successful transitions to kindergarten

3. Natalie Miller
Early Reading Success
Activities

4. Concepts of Print
Concepts of print knowledge plays a critical role in early reading development (Hiebert, Pearson, Taylor, Richardson & Paris, 1998)

5. Concepts of Print
Learning concepts of print early on influences children’s language development, phonemic awareness, phonics, word reading, and reading/writing development (Morris, 1993; Roberts, 1992)

6. Concepts of Print
Concepts of print knowledge plays a critical role in early reading development (Hiebert, Pearson, Taylor, Richardson & Paris, 1998)

7. Concepts of Print

8. Concepts of Print g

9. Phonological and Phonemic Awareness
Measures of preschoolers’ level of phonemic awareness strongly predict their future success in learning to read –English, Swedish, Spanish, French, Italian, and Russian (Lundberg, 1980; deManrique, 1984; Alebria, 1982; Cossu, 1988; Elkonin, 1973)

10. Phonological and Phonemic Awareness
Appropriate phonological awareness tasks for preschool:
Rhyming
Alliteration
Oddity tasks
Appropriate phonemic awareness tasks for preschool:
Counting sounds in words
Identifying initial sounds in words
Blending sounds to form words

11. Writing
Writing is the foundation of reading When our students write, they learn how reading is put together because they do it. They learn the essence of print (Hansen, 1987).

12. Writing
Talk with someone near you about how you encourage writing in your learning environment . . .

13. Shelly Kennedy
Academic Opportunities: Number Sense Activities

14. Mathematics
Children’s knowledge of math concepts and language are used in all domains of learning.

15. Lindsey Bushnell
Social Skills Behavioral Expectations

19. Kids learn from other kids - Modeling
Research
Kids learn from other kids - Modeling
If mislearn, it takes 10x the number of teaching trials to reteach or learn new behavior

20. Lisa Iddings
Special Education Services

21. Kristi Sanders
Kindergarten Success and Transitions Routines

22. Merisa Murray Outside Agencies: Free & Reduced Lunch
Schedules & Calendars
Mental Health Services

23. What questions do you have for us?

24. Thank you!
Kalispell Public Schools