| HighScope COR | Preschool Academic Standards | Teaching Strategies GOLD | Colorado Building Blocks | Head Start Child Development & Early Learning Framework |
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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. |
No Match | No Match | No Match | No Match |
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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. |
No Match | No Match | No Match | No Match |