Sacramento Head Start Alumni Association

Children's Reading and Mathematics Achievement in Kindergarten

Mar 14, 2002

REFORMING SCHOOLS AND IMPROVING LEARNING

**Children's Reading and Mathematics Achievement in Kindergarten and
First
Grade
According to the latest results from this national longitudinal study
of
young schoolchildren, the learning advantages for children who enter
kindergarten better prepared for learning persist through at least
first
grade. Children who have specific cognitive knowledge and skills, who
are
read to frequently, who possess positive approaches to learning, and
who
enjoy very good or excellent general health seem to perform better in
reading and mathematics after one and even two years of formal
schooling
than children who do not have these resources when they enter school..
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2002125