Summit County Early Head Start & Head Start School Readiness Goals 2012-2014 Literacy & Language Development LL1 Goal: All children will increase their ability to use different forms of words, phrases, and gestures to communicate their needs and wants with peers and familiar adults. What this looks like for… Infants: Children will look at a person who is speaking, participate in turn taking conversations with adults, use facial expressions, gesturing, hand motions, head turning, pointing, babbling, and using oral language to name objects, activities, and friends. Toddlers: Children will converse with adults and friends using one or two words to communicate and will increase their vocabulary as well as their sentence complexity. Preschool: Children will engage in communication and conversation with others, use language to express ideas and needs, use increasingly complex and varied vocabulary. LL2 Goal: All children will participate in story time activities in order to increase their interest in, knowledge of, and comprehension of stories from books. What this looks like for… Infants: Children will be exposed to books and will respond to adult's excited voice when read to and will point to pictures in books when named by an adult. Toddlers: Children will read stories to peers or stuffed animals, will handle books, will increase listening time to stories being read to them, and will tell about the story characters.

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Preschool: Children will show interest in shared reading experiences, asks and answers questions and makes comments about books, recognizes how books are read and recognizes basic characteristics. LL3 Goal: All children will increase their understanding of print concepts by recognizing familiar symbols, words or signs in their learning environment. What this looks like for… Infants: Children will engage in book handling, exploring the environment, and will begin to explore creating print. Toddlers: Children will use writing instruments, dictate words and watch as adult writes them down, and will recognize familiar logos. Preschool: Children will recognize print in everyday life, such as numbers and letters, understand that print conveys meaning, know and identify letter names and sounds, identify book parts and print concepts, writing letters and their own names as well as other emergent writing efforts. LL4 Goal: All children will participate in songs, rhymes, and stories to increase their phonological awareness. What this looks like for… Infants: Children will attend to languages spoken around them and engage in songs, rhymes, and storytelling activities. Toddlers: Children will increase vocabulary base through participation in singing, rhyming, and storytelling as well as increase and experiment with grammatical awareness. Preschool: Children will identify and discriminate between words in language, discriminate between separate syllables in words, identify and be attentive to beginning and ending sounds of words.

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Cognitive & General Knowledge CK1 Goal: All children will demonstrate conceptual knowledge of attributes by identifying and discriminating by size, color, shape and time. What this looks like for… Infants: Children will engage in manipulating various objects in various sizes, shapes, and colors. Toddlers: Children will sort objects according to shapes, colors, and sizes and begin to understand one to one correspondence. Preschool: Children will compare objects using attributes of length, weight and size, orders objects by size or length.

CK2 Goal: All children will engage in exploration of various tools and materials for intended purposes within their environment by observing and experimenting in order to solve problems or to engage in imaginary play. What this looks like for… Infants: Children will explore their environment and use all of their senses to suck, hold, look, touch, throw, and drop objects. Toddlers: Children will use toys and tools in their environment to understand cause and effect, predicting, and problem solving.

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Preschool: Children will use senses, toys and tools, including technology, to gather information, investigate materials, observe processes and relationships, and solve problems.

CK3 Goal: All children will learn and use math concepts daily in routines and experiences. What this looks like for… Infants: Children will engage in number songs, rhymes, or finger plays. Toddlers: Children will use categorizing, matching, and ordering of objects to solve problems. Preschool: Children will recognize numbers and quantities in everyday environments, recite numbers and understand that numbers come “before” or “after” one another, associates quantities and the names of numbers with written numerals.

Social & Emotional Development SE1 Goal: All children will explore their environment with curiosity and intentionality without adult support. What this looks like for… Infants: Children will express his/her likes or dislikes, try to do new things, show an interest in what others are doing and begin to imitate the action of others. Toddlers: Children will begin to play make believe, ask to do new things, follow simple directions, show preference for a particular playmate, begin to participate in group activities. Preschool: Children will choose to do challenging task, participate in make believe play, be willing to try new things, start to organize play with others keep trying when unsuccessful, focus their attention or concentrate on tasks or activities.

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SE2 Goal: All children will develop secure relationships with familiar adults at home/in the classroom setting. What this looks like for… Infants: Children will act happy or smile at familiar adults, show pleasure interacting with others, make eye contact with others, show affection for familiar adults, enjoy being cuddled, respond when spoken to, seek and accept comfort from familiar adults. Toddlers: Children will express a variety of emotions, reach for a familiar adult, make needs known to familiar adults, act happy when praised, show interest in her/his surroundings, respond to his/her name. Preschool: Children will respond positively to adult comforting when upset, show affection for familiar adults, ask trusted adults to play or read with them, act happy or excited when family members return, show an interest in what adults or other children are doing.

SE3 Goal: All children will demonstrate self-regulatory skills by following simple routines and expectations, and by engaging in cooperative experiences with peers and with familiar adults. What this looks like for… Infants: Children will fuss when hungry or tired, kick legs when excited, smile when interacting with a trusted caregiver, quiet down when held by a trusted caregiver, react to changes in routines.

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Toddlers: Children will begin to show positive ways to handle frustration, follow a daily routine, begin to calm her/himself in trying times, have regular sleep patterns, easily go from one activity to another, identify feelings in pictures or words with adult prompting. Preschool: Children will control anger, use words to identify their feelings, handle frustration well, show patience, share with other children, accept another choice when first choice is unavailable, cooperate with others, calm themselves when upset.

Approaches to Learning AL 1 Goal: All children will approach various activities with interest, curiosity, and persistence. What this looks like for… Infants: Children will be awake and alert for increasing amounts of time and will use different actions and modalities in exploring objects or interacting with people as well as a variety of materials in the environment. Toddlers: Children will be persistent in trying out different solutions to problems; awareness of change, active exploration; asking questions; and the beginning of symbolic play. Preschool: Children will pursue their own goals until complete; children will have the tools and knowledge to solve problems; be able to add or use the materials in various activities to stay actively engage for long periods of time. Children will be able to follow multi-step directions.

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AL 2 Goal: All children will develop an understanding of cause and effect relationships when using materials and when interacting with peers and familiar adults. What this looks like for… Infants: Children will regulate and prolong attention with the support of a responsive adult. Toddlers: Children will be flexible in trying out solutions to events and interactions and will maintain attention long enough to complete and activity. Preschool: Children will help make the classroom rules and expectations; children will try new ideas from an adult when interacting with others; children will be able to understand why an event happened due to their actions, and ask questions to understand why.

Physical Health & Development PHD 1 Goal: All children will demonstrate an understanding of health and safe habits and practice healthy habits. What this looks like for… Infants: Children will engage in healthy routines facilitated by adults. Toddlers: Children will participate in dressing and undressing themselves; brushing their teeth; washing hands; getting a tissue for a runny nose, drinking from an open cup; learning to use the toilet; choosing a food to eat when given several nutritious choices; and trying new foods when offered and will work towards gaining independence in performing these activities. Preschool: Children will participate in exploring new foods, daily tooth brushing, serving themselves food family style, and practicing adequate hand washing. Children will also be able to recognize the fire and lock-down alarms and participate in the procedures to get to a safe zone.

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PHD 2 Goal: Children will show increasing levels of proficiency and control of large muscles for movement, navigation, and balance. What this looks like for… Infants: Children will exhibit balance in head and body gravity, rocking, crawling, cruising, walking, and toddling. Toddlers: Children will move with more confidence and coordinating body movements for a purpose. Preschool: Children will be able to walk up and down stairs, run smoothly, gallop, walk on a balance beam, throw and catch a ball. PHD 3 Goal: All children will progress in abilities to control small muscles for such purposes as using utensils, self-care, building, and exploring. What this looks like for… Infants: Children will shake objects, reach, hold, and transfer objects from hand to hand; pick up and release toys and tools, sit and use hands, and coordinate hand and body movements. Toddlers: Children will work towards proficiency in using tools such as toothbrushes and utensils, and will manipulate toys and various objects. Preschool: Children will be able to hold own toothbrush, cut using the correct scissor grip, turn knobs, use child size eating utensils, string beads, hold writing tools with 3point grip, as well as getting dressed comprising of ; zippering or button coat and attempting to tie shoes. Children will also be capable of build with small Legos and exploring the use of a computer keyboard or touch screen.

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