Introduction
What to Expect from Your 3-Year-Old
What to Expect from Your 4-Year-Old
Developmental Skills Checklist

Basic Concepts and Skills
Colors
Shapes
Sizes
Opposites
Go-Togethers
Same and Different

Writing Readiness
Left to Right
Top to Bottom
Slanted Lines
Curved Lines
Forward Circles
Backward Circles
Top-to-Bottom Lines
Slanted Lines
Curved Lines
Circles

Reading Readiness
Letters and Letter Sounds
Beginning Sounds
Rhyming Pictures

Mathemetics Readiness
Numbers and Counting 1-10
Next
First, Next, Last
Ordinal Numbers
One-to-One Correspondence
More and Fewer
Patterns

Appendix
The Manuscript Alphabet
Teaching Suggestions