Full-day kindergarten pays off. (update).A first study-of-its-kind, targeting nearly 22,000 kindergartners nationwide, found that full-day kindergarten kindergarten [Ger.,=garden of children], system of preschool education. Friedrich Froebel designed (1837) the kindergarten to provide an educational situation less formal than that of the elementary school but one in which children's creative play instincts would be students make greater reading gains than children who attend half-day half-day Noun a day when one works only in the morning or only in the afternoon half-day half n → halber freier Tag m kindergarten. The recently released The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study longitudinal study a chronological study in epidemiology which attempts to establish a relationship between an antecedent cause and a subsequent effect. See also cohort study. , by the National Center for Education Statistics The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), as part of the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES), collects, analyzes, and publishes statistics on education and public school district finance information in the United States; conducts studies , found "slight but significant" differences in scores for both sets of children. "It's it's 1. Contraction of it is. 2. Contraction of it has. See Usage Note at its. it's it is or it has it's be ~have not huge and whether or not it's a meaningful difference, time will tell," says Val Plisko, the center's associate commissioner. The study tracks a sample of 1998 kindergartners through the fifth grade, both in public and private schools. The analysis of early reading gains is part of NCES' The Condition of Education 2003 report. Overall, the number of five-year-olds enrolled full-time full-time adj. Employed for or involving a standard number of hours of working time: a full-time administrative assistant. full rose from 42 percent in 1990 to 57 percent in 2001. One part of the study found attendance in full-day kindergarten is highest, in general, in the South (83 percent of children in the South attended full-day programs, compared to 45 percent in the Midwest, 41 percent in the Northeast and 23 percent in the West), urban areas and among black and poor children. But it doesn't mean they read better than white children in half-day kindergarten, Plisko says. Full-day classes were more likely than half-day classes to spend more time every day on letter recognition, letter-sound match, rhyming rhyme also rime n. 1. Correspondence of terminal sounds of words or of lines of verse. 2. a. A poem or verse having a regular correspondence of sounds, especially at the ends of lines. b. words, reading aloud and alphabetizing, for example. Most states allow districts to offer full-day kindergarten but don't require it. --nces.ed.gov
Full-day vs. Half-day
Percentage of kindergarten classes
that used specific activities daily
Full-day Half-day
Learn letter names 91 88
Work on phonics 86 79
Discuss new vocabulary 64 55
Read aloud 49 33
Read silently 43 29
Work on reading sheet 33 21
Read from basal text 13 5
Read student-chosen books 62 48
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