How to Build the Skills a Child Needs for Kindergarten

Children whose families take them to museums and zoos accumulate huge chunks of background knowledge without even studying. For the impoverished child, lacking the travel portfolio of affluence, the best way to accumulate background knowledge is by either reading or being read too. In a longitudinal kindergarten study, researchers found that more than 50 % of children coming from the lowest education and income levels finished in the bottom cortile and background knowledge. So once again, poverty rears its ugly head as an obstacle to learning.