Getting Ready for School: An Integrated Curriculum to Help Teachers and Parents Support Preschool Children's Early Literacy, Math, and Self-Regulation Skills

Purpose: Preschool children need language and literacy, mathematics, and self-regulation skills in order to be ready for school. While many curricula focus on one or two of these skills, none takes a fully integrated approach to supporting parents and early childhood teachers in fostering these skills in young children. The purpose of this project is to further develop and expand an existing school readiness curriculum, Getting Ready for School (GRS). The current version of the curriculum targets parents and focuses on promoting disadvantaged preschoolers' literacy and math skills. The GRS will be revised and expanded to include self-regulation content and supports for teachers. It is expected that this integrated curriculum will lead to improvements in prekindergarten children's social and academic skills.