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Kindergarten students will be given readiness screener For more information about the kindergarten Brigance screener, parents may contact either Patty Jones, ACPC principal, Kim Barnett, ACPC counselor, at Adair County Primary Center, 158 Col. Casey Drive, Columbia, KY 42728, or Phyllis Curry, Instructional Supervisor, 1204 Greensburg Street, Columbia, KY 42728 (270) 384-2476 By Phyllis Curry All Adair County kindergarten students enrolling at Adair County Primary in 2013-14 will be given a readiness screener. Students enrolling in August will be screened by school personnel in September. The Brigance III K screen has been adopted by the state of Kentucky as the universal kindergarten readiness screener and will be given statewide this year for the first time. In the past, Adair County students were screened using a locally developed screener. The Brigance Core Assessments will be administered by kindergarten teachers and other ACPC trained faculty and staff. There is also a Self-Help and Social-Emotional component which parents will be asked to complete. Once all the results of the assessments and the self-help screener are completed, there will be a level of readiness for kindergarten assigned to each student based on national norms. Parents will receive a report on their child based on the results. The Governor\'s Office of Early Childhood has released a checklist for parents to help them determine their child\'s level of readiness for kindergarten learning. Items on the list include: a general knowledge and curiosity of the world, things, events, and people, exposure to print, experiences with developmentally appropriate hands-on learning, motivation and engagement with learning tasks, experience in the arts including music, visual art and dramatic play. Other readiness measures on the list include effective social, emotional and interpersonal skills, socialization to group norms expected in school and classroom settings, an ability to communicate effectively, and physical or health barriers addressed, including screening and correction of vision, hearing and other health-related issues. According to Early Childhood guidelines, kindergarten children should be prepared to notice similarities and differences, identify basic colors, count in a sequence up to 30, count sets of objects up to 10, match objects with numerals up to 10, recognize, name and copy basic shapes (circle, square, triangle, rectangle), and ask questions such as who, what, when, why and how. Other expectations are that the kindergarten child understands simple concepts of time, speaks in five-to-six word sentences, sings simple songs, recognizes and says simple rhymes, reads and writes own name, knows home address, phone number and birthday, knows how books work, and knows the difference between prints and pictures. Children will comprehend that books are read from front to back and that print moves from left to right, top to bottom. They should also recognize print from their surroundings (traffic signs, store logos, food labels, etc.), as well as listen to and respond to stories read to them. They will be able to use scribbles and drawings to express ideas, use pictures to tell a story, recite the letters of the alphabet, and identify upper and lower case letters of the alphabet. For more information about the kindergarten Brigance screener, parents may contact either Patty Jones, ACPC principal, Kim Barnett, ACPC counselor, at Adair County Primary Center, 158 Col. Casey Drive, Columbia, KY 42728, or Phyllis Curry, Instructional Supervisor, 1204 Greensburg Street, Columbia, KY 42728 (270) 384-2476. This story was posted on 2013-06-14 03:39:49
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