School Readiness Checklist

34 Questions that help you decide if your child is ready for school

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SELF REGULATION / EMOTIONAL MATURITY

1 Can they recognise and express their feelings and
needs?
2 Do they deal well with frustration?
3 Can they make an independent decision and follow
through on it?
4 Do they have ideas of their own?
FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS
5 Can they follow two or three instructions? E.g. “pick
up your shirt, put it in the laundry basket and sit at
the table for breakfast”
6 Can they move on to new activities easily?
SOCIAL SKILLS
7 Do they show interest in other kids?
8 Do they interact with other children appropriately?
9 Do they respond well to adults?
ATTENTION
10 Can they concentrate on a task?
MEMORY
11 Can they easily remember songs & nursery rhymes?
12 Can they remember names easily?
SEQUENCING
13 Can they organise their thoughts to tell a simple
story?
14 Can they count?
15 Can they say the days of the week?
16 Do they have problems following the sequence of
events in a simple story read to them?

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MOTOR CO-ORDINATION
17 Can they dress and undress themselves?
18 Can they unwrap their lunch?
19 Are they able to use a pencil and scissors?
LANGUAGE SKILLS
20 Do they use vocabulary similar to others of the same
age?
21 Can they recall the word they need from their
memory?
22 Can they construct complex sentences (using words
like because, so, but, and, or, to join ideas within a
sentence)?
23 Do they follow the rules of conversation as well as
others of the same age (for example, they respond
to questions, they take turns in conversations, they
stay on topic)?
24 Are they unable to express themselves without
becoming frustrated, upset or aggressive?
PRE-READING SKILLS
25 Are they able to recite the alphabet from A- Z
without help?
26 Can they understand and produce rhymes?
27 Do they understand that letters represent sounds?
28 Can they write their own name?
PRE-NUMERACY SKILLS
29 Can they count up to 10 or more without help?
30 Do they understand one-on-one counting? (they can
count to 5 and point to each finger on their hand as
they count?)
31 Can they sort different objects into separate piles by
colour, size and shape?
32 Do they understand “same & different”?
33 Can they recognise written numbers and say them?
(they see the number 3 and say “three”).
34 Do they understand quantity concepts (more/less,
big/small)?

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