| HighScope COR | Preschool Academic Standards | Teaching Strategies GOLD | Colorado Building Blocks | Head Start Child Development & Early Learning Framework |
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Q - Listening to and understanding speech 0 - Child looks at or looks around for a person or object whose name is spoken. |
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Q - Listening to and understanding speech 1 - Child responds with actions or words to a suggestion, request, or question. |
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Q - Listening to and understanding speech 2 - When listening to a story, rhyme, or narrative, child anticipates and fills in a word or phrase. |
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Q - Listening to and understanding speech 3 - When listening to a story, rhyme, or narrative, child comments on or asks a question about it. |
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Q - Listening to and understanding speech 4 - Child contributes to an ongoing conversation. |
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Q - Listening to and understanding speech 5 - Child sustains a dialogue by taking three or more conversational turns. |
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0 - Child spontaneously acts on a recently heard word or includes it in own speech. |
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1 - Child talks about people or objects close at hand. |
Science Physical Science 1 - Objects have properties and characteristics a - Use senses to gather information about objects Social Studies Geography 1 - Develop spatial understanding, perspectives, and connections to the world. c - Describe surroundings |
Science and Technology 24 - Uses scientific inquiry skills - - Social Studies 32 - Demonstrates simple geographic knowledge - - |
Language Development and Communication 1 - Play Children engage in play as a means to develop their listening and expressive langauge skills. b - Represent stories and experiences through play Language Development and Communication 3 - Speaking and Communicating Children will use verbal and non-verbal language to express and communicate information. a - Communicate needs or thoughts through nonverbal gestures, actions, expressions and words. Participate in communication around a topic. Science 2 - Scientific Knowledge Children learn about the development of the natural and physical world. b - Use tools and their senses to make observations, gather and record information and make predictions about what might happen. |
Language Development Expressive Language: The ability to use language. Uses language to express ideas and needs. Science Knowledge & Skills Scientific Skills & Method: The skills to observe and collect information and use it to ask questions, predict, explain, and draw conclusions. Uses senses and tools, including technology, to gather information, investigate materials, and observe processes and relationships. Social Studies Knowledge & Skills Self, Family, & Community: The understanding of one’s relationship to the family and community, roles in the family and community, and respect for diversity. Describes or draws aspects of the geography of the classroom, home, and community. Social Studies Knowledge & Skills People & the Environment: The understanding of the relationship between people and the environment in which they live. Recognizes aspects of the environment, such as roads, buildings, trees, gardens, bodies of water, or land formations. |
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2 - Child talks about absent people or objects. |
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3 - Child uses vocabulary related to a particular subject. |
Reading and Writing Oral Expression and Listening 1 - Conceptual understanding conveyed through vocabulary words can occur using a variety of modalities d - Begin to understand that everyday words such as "cold" relate to extended vocabulary words such as "chilly" |
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 |
Language Development and Communication 3 - Speaking and Communicating Children will use verbal and non-verbal language to express and communicate information. d - Begin a conversation with other children and adults. Understand an increasingly complex and varied vocabulary. |
Language Development Receptive Language: The ability to comprehend or understand language. Comprehends increasingly complex and varied vocabulary. |
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4 - Child uses two or more words to describe something. |
Math Shape, Dimension and Geometric Relationships 1 - Shapes can be observed in the world and described in relation to one another c - Sort similar groups of objects into simple categories based on attributes |
Mathematics 22 - Compares and measures - 4 - Compares and orders a small set of objects as appropriate according to size, length, weight, area, or volume; knows usual sequence of basic daily events and a few ordinal numbers |
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Language Development Expressive Language: The ability to use language. Uses increasingly complex and varied vocabulary. |
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5 - Child asks about the meaning of a word. |
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S - Using complex patterns of speech 0 - Child communicates nonverbally. |
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S - Using complex patterns of speech 1 - Child uses words and phrases. |
Reading and Writing Oral Expression and Listening 1 - Conceptual understanding conveyed through vocabulary words can occur using a variety of modalities c - Demonstrate use of vocabulary in oral language to express ideas and events |
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 Language 9 - Uses language to express thoughts and needs d - Tells about another time or place 6 - Tells stories about other times and places that have a logical order and that include major details |
Language Development and Communication 3 - Speaking and Communicating Children will use verbal and non-verbal language to express and communicate information. a - Communicate needs or thoughts through nonverbal gestures, actions, expressions and words. Participate in communication around a topic. |
Language Development Expressive Language: The ability to use language. Uses language to express ideas and needs. |
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S - Using complex patterns of speech 2 - Child uses a sentence of four or more words. |
Reading and Writing Oral Expression and Listening 2 - Listening and comprehension skills are required to be clearly understood a - Use language to express ideas in complete sentences (with support of sentence stems as needed) |
Language 9 - Uses language to express thoughts and needs c - Uses conventional grammar 6 - Uses complete, four- to six-word sentences |
Language Development and Communication 1 - Play Children engage in play as a means to develop their listening and expressive langauge skills. a - Develop and experiment with conversation during daily activities and interactions Language Development and Communication 1 - Play Children engage in play as a means to develop their listening and expressive langauge skills. b - Represent stories and experiences through play Language Development and Communication 1 - Play Children engage in play as a means to develop their listening and expressive langauge skills. c - Think and talk about play experiences Language Development and Communication 3 - Speaking and Communicating Children will use verbal and non-verbal language to express and communicate information. b - Use more complex and longer sentences. |
Language Development Expressive Language: The ability to use language. Uses different grammatical structures for a variety of purposes. |
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S - Using complex patterns of speech 3 - Child uses two or more simple sentences in a row. |
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S - Using complex patterns of speech 4 - Child uses a compound subject or object in a sentence. |
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S - Using complex patterns of speech 5 - Child uses a clause that starts with “when,” “if,” “because,” or “since” in a sentence. |
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T - Showing awareness of sounds in words 0 - Child stills or turns upon hearing a sound. |
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T - Showing awareness of sounds in words 1 - During play, child makes the sound of an animal or vehicle, or some other environmental sound. |
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T - Showing awareness of sounds in words 2 - Child joins in saying or repeating a rhyme or a series of words that start with the same sound. |
Reading and Writing Oral Expression and Listening 2 - Listening and comprehension skills are required to be clearly understood b - Recite songs, poems, and stories with repeated rhyme Reading and Writing Oral Expression and Listening 3 - Early knowledge of phonemic awareness is the building block of understanding language a - Recognize patterns of sounds in songs, storytelling, and poetry Reading and Writing Oral Expression and Listening 3 - Early knowledge of phonemic awareness is the building block of understanding language c - Recognize rhyming words and alliterations |
Literacy 15 - Demonstrates phonological awareness a - Notices and discriminates rhyme 4 - Fills in the missing rhyming word; generates rhyming words spontaneously Literacy 15 - Demonstrates phonological awareness a - Notices and discriminates rhyme 4 - Fills in the missing rhyming word; generates rhyming words spontaneously Literacy 15 - Demonstrates phonological awareness a - Notices and discriminates rhyme 6 - Decides whether two words rhyme Literacy 15 - Demonstrates phonological awareness b - Notices and discriminates alliteration 4 - Shows awareness that some words begin the same way Literacy 15 - Demonstrates phonological awareness b - Notices and discriminates alliteration 4 - Shows awareness that some words begin the same way |
Language Development and Communication 2 - Listening and Understanding Children develop skills in listening and in understanding language. a - Listen and understand stories, songs and poems. Literacy 3 - Early Reading - Phonemic and Phonological Awareness Children demonstrate an interest in learning letters and the combination of letter sounds with letter symbols a - Show increasing ability to discriminate and identify the sounds of language. Literacy 3 - Early Reading - Phonemic and Phonological Awareness Children demonstrate an interest in learning letters and the combination of letter sounds with letter symbols e - Recognize and generate rhymes. Literacy 3 - Early Reading - Phonemic and Phonological Awareness Children demonstrate an interest in learning letters and the combination of letter sounds with letter symbols e - Recognize and generate rhymes. |
Language Development Expressive Language: The ability to use language. Uses different forms of language. Literacy Knowledge & Skills Phonological Awareness: An awareness that language can be broken into words, syllables, and smaller pieces of sound. Identifies and discriminates between words in language. Literacy Knowledge & Skills Phonological Awareness: An awareness that language can be broken into words, syllables, and smaller pieces of sound. Identifies and discriminates between words in language. Literacy Knowledge & Skills Alphabet Knowledge: The names and sounds associated with letters. Recognizes that letters of the alphabet have distinct sound(s) associated with them. |
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T - Showing awareness of sounds in words 3 - Child rhymes one word with another or makes up a phrase or sentence that includes a rhyme. |
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T - Showing awareness of sounds in words 4 - Child says that two words begin with the same sound. |
Reading and Writing Oral Expression and Listening 3 - Early knowledge of phonemic awareness is the building block of understanding language d - Demonstrate understanding of initial sounds in words (such as mop begins with the /m/ sound) |
Literacy 16 - Demonstrates knowledge of the alphabet b - Uses letter–sound knowledge 2 - Identifies the sounds of a few letters |
Literacy 3 - Early Reading - Phonemic and Phonological Awareness Children demonstrate an interest in learning letters and the combination of letter sounds with letter symbols b - Demonstrate growing awareness of the beginning sounds of words. |
Literacy Knowledge & Skills Phonological Awareness: An awareness that language can be broken into words, syllables, and smaller pieces of sound. Identifies and discriminates between sounds and phonemes in language, such as attention to beginning and ending sounds of words and recognition that different words begin or end with the same sound. Literacy Knowledge & Skills Alphabet Knowledge: The names and sounds associated with letters. Attends to the beginning letters and sounds in familiar words. |
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T - Showing awareness of sounds in words 5 - Child creates a pair or series of words that start with the same sound. |
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U - Demonstrating knowledge about books 0 - Child selects and opens a book. |
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U - Demonstrating knowledge about books 1 - Child shows interest when a book is read aloud. |
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U - Demonstrating knowledge about books 2 - Child holds a book right-side up, turns the pages, and looks at them. |
Reading and Writing Reading for All Purposes 1 - Print conveys meaning a - Hold books in upright position, turn pages sequentially, recognize correct orientation (top to bottom, left to right) |
Literacy 17 - Demonstrates knowledge of print and its uses a - Uses and appreciates books 4 - Orients book correctly; turns pages from front of the book to the back; recognizes familiar books by their covers |
Literacy 4 - Early Reading - Book Knowledge and Appreciation Children demonstrate an understanding and appreciation that books and other forms of print have a purpose. c - Handle and care for books in a respectful manner. Literacy 6 - Early Reading - Print Awareness and Concepts Children demonstrate an interest in recognizing the association between spoken and written words by following print as it is read aloud. a - Explore and investigate books and other forms of print. Literacy 6 - Early Reading - Print Awareness and Concepts Children demonstrate an interest in recognizing the association between spoken and written words by following print as it is read aloud. c - Show an increasing awareness of how books are organized. |
Literacy Knowledge & Skills Book Appreciation and Knowledge: The interest in books and their characteristics, and the ability to understand and get meaning from stories and information from books and other texts. Recognizes how books are read, such as front-to-back and one page at a time, and recognizes basic characteristics, such as title, author, and illustrator. Literacy Knowledge & Skills Print Concepts & Conventions: The concepts about print and early decoding (identifying letter-sound relationships). Understands conventions, such as print moves from left to right and top to bottom of a page. |
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U - Demonstrating knowledge about books 3 - Child asks another person to read a book to him or her. |
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U - Demonstrating knowledge about books 4 - Looking at the pictures in a book, child tells the story or makes up a story related to the pictures. |
Reading and Writing Reading for All Purposes 1 - Print conveys meaning e - Make predictions based on illustrations or portions of story or text |
Literacy 18 - Comprehends and responds to books and other texts a - Interacts during read-alouds and book conversations 6 - Identifies story-related problems, events, and resolutions during conversations with an adult |
Literacy 4 - Early Reading - Book Knowledge and Appreciation Children demonstrate an understanding and appreciation that books and other forms of print have a purpose. a - Attempt to read or tell a story and guess what happens next. |
Literacy Knowledge & Skills Book Appreciation and Knowledge: The interest in books and their characteristics, and the ability to understand and get meaning from stories and information from books and other texts. Asks and answers questions and makes comments about print materials. |
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U - Demonstrating knowledge about books 5 - Child points to the words in a book or follows a line of text while telling or reading the story. |
Reading and Writing Reading for All Purposes 1 - Print conveys meaning c - Recognize that printed material conveys meaning and connects to the reader’s world |
Literacy 17 - Demonstrates knowledge of print and its uses b - Uses print concepts 2 - Shows understanding that text is meaningful and can be read |
Literacy 6 - Early Reading - Print Awareness and Concepts Children demonstrate an interest in recognizing the association between spoken and written words by following print as it is read aloud. a - Explore and investigate books and other forms of print. Literacy 6 - Early Reading - Print Awareness and Concepts Children demonstrate an interest in recognizing the association between spoken and written words by following print as it is read aloud. c - Show an increasing awareness of how books are organized. |
Literacy Knowledge & Skills Print Concepts & Conventions: The concepts about print and early decoding (identifying letter-sound relationships). Understands that print conveys meaning. |
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V - Using letter names and sounds 0 - Child identifies personal label or a letter 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 |
Literacy 2 - Early Writing Children demonstrate an interest and ability to use symbols to represent words and ideas. a - Begin to print letters 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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V - Using letter names and sounds 1 - Child says or sings some letters. |
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V - Using letter names and sounds 2 - Child names three or more alphabet letters he or she is holding, looking at, typing, or making. |
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V - Using letter names and sounds 3 - Child makes the sound of a letter in a word he or she is looking at, writing, or typing. |
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V - Using letter names and sounds 4 - Child names 10 or more letters over time. |
Reading and Writing Reading for All Purposes 2 - Symbol, object, and letter recognition is a fundamental of reading and requires accuracy and speed b - Recognize the names of a minimum of 10 letters of the alphabet, specifically letters in own name |
Literacy 16 - Demonstrates knowledge of the alphabet a - Identifies and names letters 4 - Recognizes as many as 10 letters, especially those in own name |
Literacy 6 - Early Reading - Print Awareness and Concepts Children demonstrate an interest in recognizing the association between spoken and written words by following print as it is read aloud. d - Recognize some letters and words captured in books and in the environment. Literacy 7 - Early Reading - Alphabet Knowledge Children demonstrate and interest in recognizing that symbols are associated with letters of the alphabetand that they form words. a - Know the names of some letters and words Literacy 7 - Early Reading - Alphabet Knowledge Children demonstrate and interest in recognizing that symbols are associated with letters of the alphabetand that they form words. b - Identify some letters in print Literacy 7 - Early Reading - Alphabet Knowledge Children demonstrate and interest in recognizing that symbols are associated with letters of the alphabetand that they form words. c - Know the names of most letters 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. |
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V - Using letter names and sounds 5 - Child says a word and identifies the beginning letter or letter sound. |
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0 - Child points to, gazes at, or names a person, animal, object, or action pictured in a book. |
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1 - Child uses the same word to name more than one object. |
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2 - Child says what a picture or symbol represents. |
Reading and Writing Reading for All Purposes 1 - Print conveys meaning d - Use and interpret illustrations to gain meaning |
Literacy 18 - Comprehends and responds to books and other texts b - Uses emergent reading skills 2 - Pretends to read a familiar book, treating each page as a separate unit; names and describes what is on each page, using pictures as cues |
Literacy 5 - Early Reading - Comprehension Children demonstrate an interest in understanding that spoken and written words have meaning. c - Demonstrate understanding of the meaning of a story. |
Literacy Knowledge & Skills Book Appreciation and Knowledge: The interest in books and their characteristics, and the ability to understand and get meaning from stories and information from books and other texts. Asks and answers questions and makes comments about print materials. |
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3 - Child calls attention to print. |
Reading and Writing Reading for All Purposes 1 - Print conveys meaning b - Recognize print in the environment |
Literacy 17 - Demonstrates knowledge of print and its uses b - Uses print concepts 2 - Shows understanding that text is meaningful and can be read |
Literacy 3 - Early Reading - Phonemic and Phonological Awareness Children demonstrate an interest in learning letters and the combination of letter sounds with letter symbols d - Begin to associate sounds with written words. |
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. |
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4 - Child recognizes a written word. |
Reading and Writing Reading for All Purposes 2 - Symbol, object, and letter recognition is a fundamental of reading and requires accuracy and speed a - Recognize own name in print |
Literacy 17 - Demonstrates knowledge of print and its uses b - Uses print concepts 6 - Shows awareness of various features of print: letters, words, spaces, upper- and lowercase letters, some punctuation |
Literacy 3 - Early Reading - Phonemic and Phonological Awareness Children demonstrate an interest in learning letters and the combination of letter sounds with letter symbols e - Recognize and generate rhymes. Literacy 6 - Early Reading - Print Awareness and Concepts Children demonstrate an interest in recognizing the association between spoken and written words by following print as it is read aloud. e - Recognize own name in print |
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. |
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5 - Child reads aloud a simple phrase or sentence. |
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0 - Child makes discrete marks on a writing surface. |
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1 - Child writes using pictures, squiggles, or letterlike forms. |
Reading and Writing Writing and Composition 1 - Pictures express ideas c - Use shapes, letter-like symbols, and letters to represent words or ideas |
Literacy 19 - Demonstrates emergent writing skills b - Writes to convey meaning 3 - Mock letters or letter-like forms |
Literacy 2 - Early Writing 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. |
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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2 - Child uses clay, wire, or sticks to make a recognizable letter. |
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3 - Child writes two or more recognizable letters. |
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4 - Child writes a string of letters and reads them or asks to have them read. |
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5 - Child writes a phrase or sentence of two or more words. |
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