Definition of Key Terms
School readiness: Preparation for Kindergarten which includes multiple indicators assessed across developmental and behavioral domains including but not limited to physical well being, health and motor development, social and emotional development, approaches to learning, language development, cognitive development and age-appropriate skills and behavior.
Literacy skills: this particular school readiness indicator is the focus for Measure 24.
How to Calculate Measure/Collect Data
Programs should obtain counts of the number of children demonstrating gains in school readiness based on their literacy skills.
Accredited early childhood education programs have state requirements for assessing literacy skills of children to determine school readiness. For example, such a measure may be:
"Number of children almost always recognizing the relationships between letters and sounds at kindergarten entry".
This suggested measure is from the National School Readiness Indicators Initiative Project (Feb 2005)