Recently, much attention has been paid to the language and literacy skills of young children. In truth, we must consider the interrelationship among five developmental areas in determining school readiness:

• Physical well-being and motor development
• Social and emotional development
• Language development (verbal language and emerging literacy)
• Creative expression / aesthetic development
• Cognition and general knowledge (plus spatial relations and number concepts)

In 1999, the Connecticut State Board of Education issued “The Connecticut Framework”  for preschool education and established program goals and content standards that relate to what children need to know prior to kindergarten. The guiding principles of this framework are>>>

School unreadiness costs. Research shows that when children are not ready for school, there is an increase in costs to society. These costs include>>> 

NAEYC Position paper on School Readiness
Legislative Collaborative position paper on school readiness
Read more about the Seven Things Connecticut Needs to Know about Early childhood