HIT: Transitional classes

[Jean Tennant <jtennant@KOTZEBUE.NWABSD.SCHOOLZONE.NET>]

LM_NET,
    Several of you asked for a HIT on this topic. I have simply cut and
pasted pertinent parts of replies I received.
Jean Tennant, Librarian
Kotzebue Middle/High School
Kotzebue, Alaska 99752
jtennant@kotzebue.nwabsd.schoolzone.net


Another term for this is "bridging" rooms.

I have a cousin whose kids did "KD"  a developmental kindergarten. I
popped
it into ERIC and got the following:

Score Document Title
818 ED282644. Morado, Carolyn. Kindergarten Alternatives for the Child
Who Is
"Not Ready": Problems and Policy Issues. . 1987
788 ED321230. Phillips, Nancy H.. Retention, Promotion, or Two-Tier
Kindergarten: Which Reaches the At-Risk Reader More Effectively? . 1990
772 ED281669. Hertz, Rae. Learning Can Be Child's Play: A Developmental
Presentation for Parents and Teachers. . 1986
767 ED374921. O'Brien, Marion. Promoting Successful Transition into
School: A
Review of Current Intervention Practices. . 1991
767 ED357894. Karweit, Nancy L.; Wasik, Barbara A.. A Review of the
Effects
of Extra-Year Kindergarten Programs and Transitional First Grades. .
1992
767 ED335129. . Developmental Kindergarten: Definition and Description.
.
1989
767 ED284648. Remmey, Nanci; McIlhenny, David T.. Two-Year Developmental

Kindergarten Program. . 1987

About eight replies explaining that such classes were called pre-first
or pre-second.

My sister-in-law teaches just such a class in Indiana
and they are called "Reading Readiness" classes there.

Try the phrase "bridge classes.

At my school we call it "leap"

we have a transition indergarten and we are also
contemplating a transition 3rd to 4th grade also. You might want to
contact
Cynthia McNally at CEDMCN@aol.com. she is Special Projects Director and
she
could forward your request to the proper channels. I am sure they would
be
happy to share information on this.

How about "junior kindergarten" or "junior first grade"?

Multi-age and Integrated Day programs are programs that allow for the
mixing
of two or more traditional grade levels in a class.  A student in an
integrated day
K-1 program might be anywhere from 4-7 yrs. old and labeled
appropriately
for either K or Grade 1.  The program will generally provide more
challenge
than a traditional K but less than a traditional Grade 1.  The next
placement for the "first grader" will be a determined by how many of
those
all important early learning connections are made.  It might be a Grade
1-2,
a Grade 2, or in some (rare) cases a Grade 2-3.

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