Region 14/15 ESC Head Start School Readiness Goals with

CLI Assessments that Track Progress

 

Approaches to Learning: Children will express themselves creatively through arts, music, dance, and movement.

*Art/Creativity and Dramatic Play Children will demonstrate positive approaches to learning through persistence, problem solving, and curiosity.

*Approaches to Learning (persistence), Initiative/Curiosity and Flexibility (problem solving).

 

Social and Emotional Development: Children will learn to regulate their own emotions and behavior. 

*Emotional and Behavior Regulation. Children will learn how to establish relationships, participate cooperatively and constructively in group situations.

*Positive Social Behaviors, classroom community safety

 

Language and Literacy: Children will demonstrate phonological awareness, knowledge of the alphabet, knowledge of print and its uses, and demonstrate emergent writing skills.

*Rapid Letter Naming, Letter/Sound Association, All Required Phonological Awareness, Book and Print Knowledge and Early Writing Skills. Children will respond to books and other texts.

*Motivation to Read Children will listen to and understand increasingly complex language, use language to express thoughts and needs in order to communicate and converse.

*Rapid Vocabulary, Speech Production and Sentence Skills Second language learners will demonstrate progress in listening to understanding and speaking English.

*Rapid Vocabulary, Speech Production and Sentence Skills

 

Cognition: Children will develop mathematical knowledge using number concepts and operations, will explore spatial relationships and shapes, and will compare, measure.

*Rote Counting, Shape Naming, Number Discrimination, Number Naming, Shape Discrimination, Counting Sets, Operations, Real World

 

Perceptual, Motor, and Physical Development: Children will demonstrate increasing motor control

*Fine and Visual Motor, Gross Motor Children will demonstrate healthy habits.

*Health Status, self-care

 

Region 14/15 ESC School Readiness Goals

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May 2020