School Readiness

The early years of a child’s life provide the foundation for success in school and life. As their child’s first and most important teacher parents play a crucial role in supporting school readiness. Parents as Teachers Guilford County partners with parents to build supportive relationships that empower parents to prepare their children to enter school ready to learn, ready for life.
School readiness is arriving at school with the knowledge, skills, and physical and emotional health needed to participate successfully. It includes children having basic human needs like food, shelter, and loving and nurturing relationships readily met so that children can focus on learning while at school. School readiness is generally defined by the condition of the children as they enter school in these five domains:
Social-emotional
- Manages feelings
- responds to emotional cues
- interacts with peers
- solves social problems
- Follows limits and expectations
Cognitive/Mathematics
- Counts
- Quatifies
- Connects numerals and quantitites
Cognitive/Approaches to Learning
- Attends and engages
Language & Literacy
- Notices and discriminates rhyme
- Notices and discriminates alliteration
- Tells about another time or place
- Follows directions
Physical
- Uses finders and hands