Written by an experienced kindergarten teacher, Get Your Child Ready for Kindergarten (and Start Early) provides simple strategies to prepare your child for an important milestone year, kindergarten. Learn about current kindergarten curriculum expectations. Discover ideas for fostering language, social and emotional development, motivational techniques, creating independence, communicating with your child's teacher, early intervention, choosing a pre-k, and more. Are you ready to get your child off to a great start in kindergarten? Learn what you can do as a parent to help your child achieve success.

Before Jennifer Minogue, M.Ed., ever became a teacher and then a mom, she majored in Communication Arts (Journalism) with a minor in English at Hofstra University. Her first job was as a writer/copy editor for a small financial newspaper in New York City. At night she went back to graduate school to get her Masters in Education, with her goal being to share her love of literature and writing. Now married and a mom, Jennifer has been an elementary school teacher for almost 25 years. She loves spending time with her husband, daughters, and two dogs. In addition to teaching and writing, she likes to travel and exercise. She wrote this book to thoughtfully and thoroughly answer a question she is so often asked: 'What does my child need to know for kindergarten?'