For Parents
The following materials were created by the Ready Freddy Team for parents and children to use at home.
Parent-Activity-Guide for Home Visitors
Songs in the Ready Freddy Calendar
Listen to and download the songs that appear on the inside cover of the Ready Freddy Activity Calendar.
Ready Freddy Goes to School (Interactive Book)
Follow Freddy as he gets ready for his first day of school!
Freddy’s Bookshelf
Take a look at some of Freddy’s favorite books about getting ready for kindergarten!
The ABCs Of My Child
Parents know their child best. This worksheet helps parents introduce important information to their child’s new teacher.
All About Me
This child/parent activity helps introduce a child to the teacher from the child’s perspective. Pages can be filled with drawings or text, depending on the skill level and interest of the child. Parents should help talk through and think about pages, but what is on the page should be the child’s work (not done by the parent’s hand).
For Schools and Communities
Facilitator’s Guide
For school communities that want to develop or improve a transition team. Sample materials from the guide are provided. Please contact us for individual technical assistance or to learn more about developing a team.
School Leader’s Guide
A synopsis of quality transition from the school perspective. Does your school need a transition team?
Transition Team Facilitator’s Guide
The four documents included in this guide cover the key aspects of a good transition team.
K-Clubs Sample Content
A Kindergarten Club is a 6-session parent-child group that helps families prepare for kindergarten. This curriculum is designed to provide familiarity with school and is great for any children who have not attended pre-K.
Kindergarten Round-Up Sample Content
Kindergarten round-ups are single events that foster excitement for rising kindergarten students and their families.
Ready Freddy Kindergarten Kick-Off Event Planning Guide
This 15 page document makes it easy to plan a First Day of School Celebration for any school.
Ready Freddy Sample Door Knocker
This word document lets you edit this easy to use door knocker. Don’t forget it next time you go out into the community for door knocking!
Ready Freddy Outreach Toolkit
In an effort to streamline and focus our community outreach work, Ready Freddy has developed this outreach toolkit. It is designed as a basic reference that can be tailored to the specific needs and resources of individual school communities.
For Researchers
- Chronic Early Absence: Providing Solutions for Increasing Achievement in the Early Grades and Preventing School Drop-out
- Attendance Works: Why It Matters
- Attendance Works: Tools for City Leaders
- Toolkit for City Leaders
- Present, Engaged, and Accounted For: The Critical Importance of Addressing Chronic Absence in the Early Grades
- A New Wave of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family, and Community Connections on Student Achievement
- Present and Accounted for: Improving Student Attendance Through Family and Community Involvement
- Help Your Child Succeed in School: Build the Habit of Good Attendance Early
- Office of Child Development and Early Learning: Early Childhood-related SAS Resources and Information
- PA Keys Transition Toolkit
- Recognition and Response: Promoting Smooth Transitions to Kindergarten (Includes resources for children with special needs)
- Terrific Transitions: Annotated Bibliography
- Ecological Model of Transition
- Transition from Preschool Services to Kindergarten
- The Transition to Kindergarten: A Review of Current Research and Promising Practices to Involve Families