| Some preschools also introduce the prereading concepts that were once left to kindergarten: knowing the alphabet and identifying the sounds letters make. |
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| Graduates have solid gains in vocabulary and other prereading skills, compared with children from similar backgrounds who have not had the Head Start experience, and they are more ready for school. |
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| They have been shown to improve prereading, prewriting and premathematics skills. |
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| A recent study of public school prekindergartens in Tulsa, Okla., found that children experienced gains of nine months in prereading skills and five months in premath skills compared with other children their age. |
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