Blackfeet Early Childhood Center <> Head Start Child Outcomes Framework <> Language Development

PO Box 528
615 South Piegan
Browning, Montana 59417
406-338-7370
Email: becc@inaksim.com

Head Start Child Outcomes Framework Language Development

DOMAIN	DOMAIN ELEMENT	INDICATORS
	Listening & Understanding	► Demonstrates increasing ability to attend to and understand conversations, stories, songs, and poems. ► Shows progress in understanding and following simple and multiple-step directions. × Understands an increasingly complex and varied vocabulary. × For non-English-speaking children, progresses in listening to and understanding English.
	Speaking & Communicating	× Develops increasing abilities to understand and use language to communicate information, experiences, ideas, feelings, opinions, needs, questions, and for other varied purposes. ► Progresses in abilities to initiate and respond appropriately in conversation and discussions with peers and adults. × Uses an increasingly complex and varied spoken vocabulary. ► Progresses in clarity of pronunciation and towards speaking in sentences of increasing length and grammatical complexity. × For non-English-speaking children, progresses in speaking English.

× Indicates the 4 specific Domain Elements and 9 Indicators that are legislatively mandated.

Eight Domains of the Head Start Child Outcomes Framework

Approaches to Learning ¦ Creative Arts ¦ Language Development ¦ Literacy ¦ Mathematics
Physical Health & Development ¦ Science ¦ Social & Emotional Development