KINDERGARTEN SKILLS CHECKLIST

Here is a wonderful developmental skills checklist that you can use to records and assess your child's progress as they go into Kindergarten. I used this checklist when I was a teacher and I would record the dates next to the skills after the child mastered it!

Basic Skills:

• Names Basic Colors


• Names Simple Shapes


• Identifies Opposites


• Understands positional concepts


• Names days of the week in order

Reading Readiness

• Follows multiple-step directions


• Recited the alphabet


• Identifies uppercase letters in random order


• Identifies lowercase letters in random order


• Matches uppercase and lowercase letters


• Identifies sounds made by letters


• Identifies characters in stories


• Can retell a story


• Identifies problem/solution in a story


• Reads color words


• Reads some words by sight

Math Skills

• Counts objects to 20


• Writes numbers to 20


• Identifies numbers to 20 in random order


• Counts by 10's to 100


• Uses ordinal numbers


• Reads a graph


• Identifies and continues established patterns

Writing Skills

• Dictates a sentence about a picture


• Writes from left to right


• leaves spaces between words


• Writes some words independently


• Writes own sentences using sounds


• Uses punctuation in sentences

Small Motor Skills

• Colors within the lines


• Draws shapes


• Holds a pencil


• Prints letters and numbers


• Cuts a line with scissors