| Colorado Building Blocks | Preschool Academic Standards | Teaching Strategies GOLD | HighScope COR | Head Start Child Development & Early Learning Framework |
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Children demonstrate an interest and ability to use symbols to represent words and ideas. a - Begin to print letters in own name. |
Reading and Writing Writing and Composition 2 - Letters are formed with accuracy b - Write and recognize letters in own name |
Literacy 19 - Demonstrates emergent writing skills a - Writes name 6 - Accurate name |
Language and Literacy V - Using letter names and sounds 0 - Child identifies personal label or a letter in own name. |
Literacy Knowledge & Skills Print Concepts & Conventions: The concepts about print and early decoding (identifying letter-sound relationships). Recognizes print in everyday life, such as numbers, letters, one’s name, words, and familiar logos and signs. Literacy Knowledge & Skills Early Writing: The familiarity with writing implements, conventions, and emerging skills to communicate through written representations, symbols, and letters. Copies, traces, or independently writes letters or words. |
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Children demonstrate an interest and ability to use symbols to represent words and ideas. b - Understand that writing carries a message |
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Children demonstrate an interest and ability to use symbols to represent words and ideas. c - Experiment with a variety of writing tools and materials; |
Reading and Writing Writing and Composition 2 - Letters are formed with accuracy a - Begin to develop proper pencil grip when drawing or writing |
Physical 7 - Demonstrates fine-motor strength and coordination a - Uses fingers and hands 6 - Uses refined wrist and finger movements |
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Physical Development & Health Fine Motor Skills: The control of small muscles for such purposes as using utensils, self-care, building, and exploring. Develops hand strength and dexterity. |
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Children demonstrate an interest and ability to use symbols to represent words and ideas. d - Use scribbles, shapes, letter-like symbols and letters to write or represent words or ideas. |
Music Theory of Music 2 - Recognition of a wide variety of sounds and sound sources b - Use invented symbols to represent musical sounds and ideas Reading and Writing Writing and Composition 1 - Pictures express ideas c - Use shapes, letter-like symbols, and letters to represent words or ideas Reading and Writing Writing and Composition 2 - Letters are formed with accuracy a - Begin to develop proper pencil grip when drawing or writing |
Physical 7 - Demonstrates fine-motor strength and coordination b - Uses writing and drawing tools 6 - Holds drawing and writing tools by using a three-point finger grip but may hold the instrument too close to one end Literacy 19 - Demonstrates emergent writing skills b - Writes to convey meaning 3 - Mock letters or letter-like forms The Arts 34 - Explores musical concepts and expression - - |
Language and Literacy X - Writing 1 - Child writes using pictures, squiggles, or letterlike forms. |
Physical Development & Health Fine Motor Skills: The control of small muscles for such purposes as using utensils, self-care, building, and exploring. Manipulates writing, drawing, and art tools. Logic & Reasoning Symbolic Representation: The use of symbols or objects to represent something else. Represents people, places, or things through drawings, movement, and three-dimensional objects. Literacy Knowledge & Skills Early Writing: The familiarity with writing implements, conventions, and emerging skills to communicate through written representations, symbols, and letters. Uses scribbles, shapes, pictures, and letters to represent objects, stories, experiences, or ideas. Literacy Knowledge & Skills Early Writing: The familiarity with writing implements, conventions, and emerging skills to communicate through written representations, symbols, and letters. Copies, traces, or independently writes letters or words. |
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Children demonstrate an interest and ability to use symbols to represent words and ideas. e - Begin to dictate ideas, sentences and stories. |
Reading and Writing Writing and Composition 1 - Pictures express ideas b - Orally describe or tell about a picture Reading and Writing Writing and Composition 1 - Pictures express ideas d - Dictate ideas to an adult |
Language 9 - Uses language to express thoughts and needs a - Uses an expanding expressive vocabulary 6 - Describes and tells the use of many familiar items Cognitive 14 - Uses symbols and images to represent something not present a - Thinks symbolically 6 - Plans and then uses drawings, constructions, movements, and dramatizations to represent ideas |
Creative Representation J - Drawing and painting pictures 3 - Child draws or paints something and explains what it stands for. |
Literacy Knowledge & Skills Early Writing: The familiarity with writing implements, conventions, and emerging skills to communicate through written representations, symbols, and letters. Recognizes that writing is a way of communicating for a variety of purposes, such as giving information, sharing stories, or giving an opinion. Literacy Knowledge & Skills Early Writing: The familiarity with writing implements, conventions, and emerging skills to communicate through written representations, symbols, and letters. Recognizes that writing is a way of communicating for a variety of purposes, such as giving information, sharing stories, or giving an opinion. |