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