Essential Prep for Preschoolers: A Guide to Kindergarten Readiness

Does your preschooler need to get ready for kindergarten? The Core Knowledge Series: What Your Preschooler Needs to Know is the perfect resource for parents. Written by E. D. Hirsch Jr., this book is one of the best Curricula Books available and is easy to read and understand. It is sure to provide overall satisfaction for parents and their children.

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E.D. Hirsch Jr.'s Kindergarten Core Knowledge Series is an invaluable resource for early education. It features an array of topics designed to promote knowledge and understanding in young learners, such as language, math, science, history, and the arts. With its engaging activities, interactive lessons, and comprehensive coverage of core subjects, this series provides an excellent foundation for kindergarteners to build upon.
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Details of Essential Prep for Preschoolers: A Guide to Kindergarten Readiness

  • Customer Reviews: 4.6/5 stars of 522 ratings
  • Paperback ‏ ‎: 224 pages
  • Reading age ‏ ‎: 2 - 4 years, from customers
  • Homeschooling (Books): Homeschooling
  • ISBN-10 ‏ ‎: 0385341989
  • Item Weight ‏ ‎: 1.15 pounds
  • Early Childhood Education: Early Childhood Education
  • Dimensions ‏ ‎: 7.4 x 0.54 x 9.23 inches
  • Best Sellers Rank: #36 in Curricula #200 in Early Childhood Education#244 in Homeschooling
  • ISBN-13 ‏ ‎: 978-0385341981
  • Language ‏ ‎: English
  • Curricula (Books): Curricula
  • Publisher ‏ ‎: Delta; NO-VALUE edition

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Jennifer Saligan: Has great song , story’s , tell you what to ask your child to get them thinking and learning. I recommend

United States on Oct 24, 2023

MissManda: This book is so very American.
History is very American centric (well only American), the "art" is very American. There is a whole world out there, and they only hint at that in the section that people are adaptable.

It's a hard pass, returning.

Canada on Oct 21, 2023

Travis sodenTravis soden: The media could not be loaded.  I pick one poem a day to read aloud or one song to sing. When I move into the history/science part of this book I’ll probably do one page a day. Just a lot of fun, easy things to introduce my son to learning. He’s 4 and we are homeschooling. I think this is a nice resource to have.

United States on Aug 13, 2023

jo: Brilliant book, title leads you to believe it at a list of things your child should know.. it’s a book full of poems songs stories some science history etc. my daughter loves looking though and listening to the stories.

United Kingdom on Jul 21, 2022

Katie: I got this for my eldest son during covid, as in-person schools weren't happening. We used this over one year. Then for his kindergarten year we used "What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know," "180 Days of Spelling" kindergarten book, and a kindergarten grammar workbook. We also used the first two sets of Bob books. At the end of kindergarten he tested in the 99th percentile for reading and is reading at a fifth grade level.

Being as this book constituted basically all of his curriculum for his pre-school year, I think it laid a terrific foundation.

I had my then fourth-grader listen along, as some of the content she didn't know, despite having attended a private school for preschool.

I even learned a couple new things from this book, and I graduated summa cum laude with a bachelors of applied science. I didn't know turtles hibernate, until I read this to my son. (My degree is in computer science.)

Because the schools we're interested are all using COVID as justification as child abuse, we continue to use the Core Knowledge books to homeschool and could not be more pleased.

United States on Jul 19, 2022

P.CusackP.Cusack: This is a great book! This is a part of the Core Knowledge curriculum which is a fantastic knowledge based k-8 curriculum and this, and the other books, are an amazing resource for parents who home school or who’s children go to a regular elementary with a hit or miss curriculum. It’s based on the well studied educational theory that children need background knowledge to become good readers, the curriculum exposes them to a wide range of the most drawn upon knowledge that American school children will need.

Another great thing is that the vocabulary and topics are age appropriate and will use words that your child doesn’t know so you have a chance to teach them about new words.

Now, with all this good curricular background, somehow I was expecting a newsprint booklet with lots of worksheets to copy. Not so! It’s a high quality book, with thick, glossy pages and vibrant images. It’s full of poems and stories, it’s FUN! My daughter immediately wanted me to to read the whole thing (not possible in one evening!).

In summery, I love this book. It’s easy to add into our reading circulation and it makes me feel confident that I am exposing my daughter...

United States on Feb 25, 2021

Leanne: Not what I was looking for, the book gives you outdated songs and poems. Nothing structured about what a child needs to know before pre-school eg numbers, colours. It’s a song and poet book. Very disappointed. Not as book advertised

United Kingdom on May 17, 2020

kdea473: I bought this book for myself, to help in preparing my young child for her educational future. She is currently 16 months old, and not going to be ready for kindergarten any time soon, of course. But I was hoping it would give me some "material" to use as a supplement for daycare.
As it turns out, she is fascinated by this book. She knows where it has been stashed, will point for it, and will sit for an hour in my lap to read it. (No joke.) I like the nursery rhymes and finger play songs because they remind me of my own childhood. (Do most kids even know nursery rhymes these days?)
She has her favorites, and will point at them to do them repeatedly. She aslo knows several of the movement songs.
Shes not interested in the history, art or story parts of the book. She will look at the animals in the nature section.
I'm not sure that this book will be as interesting to most toddlers her age, but it is great for parents to look ahead and start working some of this material into their repertoire so that it comes naturally and isn't forced.
I liked the history section, because I might not have known what type of history was important for a preschooler. I don't recall...

United States on Jan 08, 2019

B Lindsay: There are lots of rhymes, stories and songs in it which the children like. The history is all American so a British version would be nice too. I used it in conjunction with other materials and we've been very happy working through it.

United Kingdom on Jun 14, 2016

Laura Z: I enjoyed the higher level books growing up when they were available at Costco. Now I have my own children and wanted help with readiness. This book has many poems, stories, discussion topics and great ideas, lists (kindergarten readiness, music, further reading), illustrations etc... No complaints on the content, but with the formatting: I wish there was distinction between notes to parents in stories such as different background or text formatting. Also I found the placement of the illustrations after the text meant a lot of flipping back when discussing images. I also wish the song list in the reference section that is sold as a CD on the book site was sold on iTunes.

Canada on Mar 16, 2014



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Total Reviews 18 reviews 355 reviews 128 reviews
Customer Reviews 4.6/5 stars of 522 ratings 4.8/5 stars of 12,062 ratings 4.7/5 stars of 6,776 ratings
Paperback ‏ ‎ 224 pages 122 pages 201 pages
Reading age ‏ ‎ 2 - 4 years, from customers 3 - 6 years, from customers 2 - 5 years, from customers
Homeschooling (Books) Homeschooling
ISBN-10 ‏ ‎ 0385341989 109770467X 1635785049
Item Weight ‏ ‎ 1.15 pounds 10.6 ounces 1.08 pounds
Early Childhood Education Early Childhood Education
Dimensions ‏ ‎ 7.4 x 0.54 x 9.23 inches 8.5 x 0.28 x 11 inches 8.5 x 0.46 x 11 inches
Best Sellers Rank #36 in Curricula #200 in Early Childhood Education#244 in Homeschooling #1 in Curricula #1 in Children's Journal Writing#2 in Handwriting Reference #2 in Curricula #12 in Parent Participation in Education #14 in Children's Handwriting Books
ISBN-13 ‏ ‎ 978-0385341981 978-1097704675 978-1635785043
Language ‏ ‎ English English English
Curricula (Books) Curricula Curricula Curricula
Publisher ‏ ‎ Delta; NO-VALUE edition Independently published Libro Studio LLC
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