ESC Region 14/15 Head Start School Readiness Goals
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