Child's Readiness to Learn in Kindergarten

 
 
 
 
A study by America's Kindergarteners reported in Reading Today maintains that most children in the U.S. enter kindergarten "ready to learn," (Most, 2000, p. 17). Despite this assessment, the study also found that at-risk factors impact ` child's readiness to learn in kindergarten, including single-parenthood, minority non-English speaking household, and homogenized environment and culture. Indeed, Ricciuti (1999, p. 450) reports similar results, arguing that single parenthood, ethnicity, and family income and educational status can "negatively impact" on "developmental readiness to learn." This is why the fact that behaviorists see development as an incremental sequence of specifically condition behaviors is so important to parents, kindergarten teachers, and others responsible for children during their formativ


     
 
 
 
    

 

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