Parental Involvement in School Readiness Programs

Ye HE

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It is important for young children to have ready to go to school while they are in kindergarten. A good method to help children have enough school readiness is parental involvement. There is a lot of experience of both theories and also practice showed in this essay, to help kindergarten teacher and parents know how to increase parental involvement in education for good school readiness for young children.

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Parental involvement; School readiness; Early childhood education

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