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The objective of Kindergarten is not to teach your Child perfect reading, but to prepare the ground for reading, to give him/her desire to read and to provide him/her with very solid bases so that he/she will be able to learn reading without difficulty during his/her first year in the Primary School. Nevertheless bases given during pre-school will enable some children to start reading even before entering Primary School. |
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To say what a child should be able to do in graphics is very delicate, almost impossible. If I say that he/she must be able to copy words written in cursive writing (small letters), it will not help you much, because all Children can do it at the end of the last year they spend at Kindergarten, but it is the quality of the copy which differs. Some children manage to make small letters and organize the words well on the sheet of paper, whereas others are still very awkward. That corresponds to a maturity and a personal rythm of development which in my opinion must be respected, except if the child is so retarded in graphics that his/her cerebral capacities cannot be expressed : for example, he/she cannot make an exercise of enumeration because he/she has trouble to write the figures, although he/she can count perfectly. A child who is weak in graphics has a handicap at the beginning, because he/she is slower and his/her work looks less finished, but that will not prevent him/her from progressing in his/her studies. Some tracks about what your Child should be able to do : he/she should be able to: The most frequently occurring difficulties and solutions: * at the beginning of the year,
a few children can write from right to left (writing out of mirror);
this problem will soon disappear. |