wordsmart

  • learning objectives for infants
  • listening

language

  • Shows an interest in the speech of others
  • Responds to simple verbal requests accompanied by gestures or voice
  • speaking

using language

  • Vocalizes and gestures to communicate
  • Babbles strings of single consonant sounds and combines sounds
  • Uses one- or two-word sentences or phrases
  • Makes simple statements about recent events and familiar people and objects that are not present

conversation

  • Engages in simple back-and-forth exchanges with others
  • Responds to speech by looking toward the speaker; watches for signs of being understood when communicating
  • prereading

phonetics

  • Listens to simple nursery rhymes, songs, and chants
  • Includes repetitive sounds in babbling
  • Understands and uses one-word phrases

letters

  • Demonstrates beginning sound awareness
  • Makes a variety of sounds

print

  • Shows interest in books
  • Begins to interact with books and environmental print

narrative

  • Shows interest in shared reading experiences and looking at books
  • Shows preference for familiar stories
  • prewriting

writing

  • Makes scribbles or marks

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wordsmart

  • learning objectives for toddlers
  • listening

language

  • Identifies familiar people, animals, and objects when prompted
  • Follows simple requests not accompanied by gestures
  • speaking

using language

  • Names familiar people, animals, and objects
  • Uses some words and word-like sounds and is understood by most familiar people
  • Uses three- to four-word sentences; may omit some words or use some words incorrectly
  • Tells simple stories about objects, events, and people not present; lacks many details and a conventional beginning, middle, and end

conversation

  • Initiates and attends to brief conversation
  • Uses appropriate eye contact, pauses, and simple verbal prompts when communicating
  • prereading

phonetics

  • Fills in the missing rhyming word; generates rhyming words spontaneously
  • Sings songs and recites rhymes and refrains with repeating initial sounds
  • Segments phrases into single words

letters

  • Listens to letters introduced through songs, language, and print
  • Begins to learn alphabet and recognizes that pictures are used to communicate language

print

  • Shows growing enjoyment in books and reading
  • Recognizes that books are different from other objects and can be used for storytelling

narrative

  • Uses words to describe or name pictures when reading
  • Retells some events in a familiar story with modeling and assistance
  • With prompting and support, responds to simple questions about a story
  • prewriting

writing

  • Makes controlled linear scribbles

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wordsmart

  • learning objectives for preschoolers
  • listening

language

  • Responds appropriately to specific vocabulary and simple statements, questions, and stories
  • Follows directions of two or more steps that relate to familiar objects and experiences
  • speaking

using language

  • Describes and tells the use of many familiar items
  • Is understood by most people; may mispronounce new, long, or unusual words
  • Uses complete, four- to six-word sentences
  • Tells stories about other times and places that have a logical order and that include major details

conversation

  • Engages in conversations of at least three exchanges
  • Uses acceptable language and social rules while communicating with others; may need reminders
  • prereading

phonetics

  • Decides whether two words rhyme
  • Shows awareness that some words begin the same way and matches beginning sounds of some words
  • Segments words into syllables with adult guidance

letters

  • Recognizes and names a few letters in own name and recognizes familiar logos and environmental print
  • Recognizes that the letters of the alphabet are a special category of visual graphics that can be individually named

print

  • Begins to demonstrate enjoyment in books and reading
  • Shows understanding that text is meaningful and can be read

narrative

  • Uses pictures to predict story content
  • Retells familiar stories using pictures or props as prompts
  • Responds to simple questions about a story
  • prewriting

writing

  • Creates mock letters or letter-like forms

PRESCHOOL SECTION CHANGE FORM

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wordsmart

  • learning objectives for prekindergarteners
  • listening

language

  • Responds appropriately to complex statements, questions, vocabulary, and stories
  • Follows detailed, instructional, multi-step directions
  • speaking

using language

  • Incorporates new, less familiar or technical words in everyday conversations
  • Pronounces multisyllabic or unusual words correctly
  • Uses long, complex sentences and follows most grammatical rules
  • Tells elaborate stories that refer to other times and places

conversation

  • Initiates and participates in complex, lengthy conversations (five or more exchanges)
  • Uses acceptable language and social rules while communicating with others
  • prereading

phonetics

  • Generates a group of rhyming words when given a word
  • Isolates and identifies the beginning sound of a word
  • Segments words into syllables

letters

  • Recognizes most letters, especially those in own name
  • Is able to match most letters with their sound.

print

  • Uses various types of books for their intended purposes
  • Understands that written words represent spoken language

narrative

  • Uses prior knowledge, story title, and pictures to make predictions about story content
  • Retells a familiar story in proper sequence, including major events and characters
  • Can answer detailed questions about a story
  • prewriting

writing

  • Is able to write own name
  • Writes using pictures/symbols/letters and early invented spelling

PRE-K SECTION CHANGE FORM

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