Developmental Standards: PreK

Approaches to Learning (AL.PK)

Social Emotional (SE.PK)

Reading Informational Text

With eagerness and curiosity actively engage in play as means of exploration and learning

Approach tasks and activities with exibility and inventiveness

Actively engage in problem solving

Demonstrate persistence

Self-Concept

Relationship with Adults

Relationship with Peers - develop positive relationships with peers

Regulate own response to needs, feelings, and events

Understand and follow rules and routines

Steps toward Effective Implementation

Craft and Structure

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

Range of Reading and Text Complexity

Independently interact with a variety of materials through multiple play activities.

  Self-select play activities to support own curiosity and to engage in pretend and imaginative play (e.g., testing theories, acting out imagination).

 Demonstrate an awareness of connection between prior and new knowledge.

Choose materials/props and use novel ways to represent ideas, characters, and objects in a move toward symbolic play.

Seek additional clarity to further own knowledge (e.g., asks what, how, why, when, where, and/or what if).

Demonstrate a willingness to engage in new experiences and activities.

 Identify a problem and attempt multiple ways to solve it, with or without assistance.

Demonstrate a willingness to collaborate with others to solve a problem.

Maintain focus appropriate to completing task and/or learning activity.

Seek assistance and/or information when needed to complete a task.

Describe self using several different identifying characteristics and/or unique qualities (e.g., abilities, interests, gender, culture).

Develop a basic awareness of self as an individual, self within the context of family and self within the context of community.

Display sense of accomplishment, contentment, and acknowledgement when completing a task or solving a problem.

Interact and develop positive relationships with signi cant adults (e.g., primary caregivers, teachers, and other familiar adults).

Seek and accept guidance from primary caregivers, teachers, and other familiar adults.

Initiate play and interact positively with another child or children.

Develop friendship skills (e.g., help, share, take turns, give compliments) with increasing ease and comfort to sustain interaction by cooperating, helping, and suggesting new ideas for play.

Show empathy and caring for others.

Express feelings, needs, opinions, and desires in a way which is appropriate to the situation

Appropriately name types of emotions (e.g., happy, sad, frustrated) and associate them with different facial expressions, words, and behaviors.

Demonstrate ability to modify behavior in different situations using multiple problem solving strategies (e.g., trade, take turns, share, wait) with or without adult guidance and support.

Demonstrate an understanding of rules through actions and conversations.

Engage easily in routine activities (e.g., large group, small group, center time).

With modeling and support, ask and answer questions about informational text.

Use materials purposefully, safely, and respectfully as set by group rules.

With modeling and support, recall important age appropriate facts from informational text by engaging in meaningful discussions and activities.

Develop new vocabulary by engaging in meaningful discussions and activities to promote learning of unfamiliar words found in informational text.

Identify that the title of the book is found on the front cover.

With guidance and support, identify the role of the author and the illustrator.

With guidance and support, discuss the use of illustrations to support the descriptions of characters, settings or to predict events in the text.

With guidance and support, relate informational text to personal experience or other text.

(Begins in Kindergarten)

With guidance and support, explore and identify the similarities and differences between books on the same topic.

Actively listen and participate in small and large group activities when informational text is read aloud or discussed.