Research Article

“Getting Ready for School:” A Preliminary Evaluation of a Parent-Focused School-Readiness Program

Table 2

Emergent literacy and math objectives by unit.

GRS Literacy ObjectivesGRS Activity Set

“Outside-In Skills”Language—Semantic and conceptual knowledge1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Narrative—Understanding and producing narrative1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Conventions of print—Knowledge of standard print format1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Emergent reading—Pretending to read1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

“Inside-Out Skills”Knowledge of graphemes—letter name knowledge 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Phonological awareness—detection of rhyme, manipulation of syllables, manipulation of individual phonemes1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8
Syntactic awareness—repair grammatical errors3
Phoneme-grapheme correspondence—letter-sound knowledge, pseudoword decoding1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Emergent writing—phonetic spelling2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9

GRS Math ObjectivesGRS Activity Set

Numbers and operations1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Geometry and spatial sense4, 5, 9
Measurement1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9
Algebra1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Data analysis1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9