Despite the absence of updated analysis of federal data on kindergarten expectations, teachers say that standards have ...

These strategies help preschool and kindergarten students develop letter recognition, spatial awareness, and fine motor ...

Children usually begin to acquire these skills as early as 1 or 2 months old and continue to learn additional skills through preschool and early elementary school. The most important fine motor ...

This is an association that was first popularized by Grissmer, Grimm, Ayer, Murrah, and Steele (2010), who found early fine motor skills in kindergarten were a predictor for reading and math ...

A 2017 study showed that children with the best pencil grip in kindergarten used the least technology at home. They also took part in more fine motor activities at home. Fine motor skills in ...

Local teachers and occupational therapists say an increasing number of children are showing up for kindergarten without the fine motor skills needed to grip a marker, hold their paper still while ...

More information: Aislinn Bowler et al, Phenotypic and Genetic Associations Between Preschool Fine Motor Skills and Later Neurodevelopment, Psychopathology, and Educational Achievement, Biological ...

Kindergarten “redshirting”—when a parent ... hindered the youngest students’ ability to learn foundational fine-motor and social-emotional skills —some parents’ attitudes about ...