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

Blackfeet Early Childhood Center in Browning Montana

PO Box 528
615 South Piegan
Browning, Montana 59417
406-338-7370
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Head Start Child Outcomes Framework

Language Development

DOMAIN

DOMAIN ELEMENT

INDICATORS

Blackfeet Early Childhood Center in Browning, Montana.

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.

Blackfeet Early Childhood Center in Browning, Montana.

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

Blackfeet Early Childhood Center in Browning, Montana