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Head Start Child Outcomes Framework
Literacy |
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DOMAIN |
DOMAIN
ELEMENT |
INDICATORS |
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× Phonological Awareness |
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Shows
increasing ability to discriminate and identify sounds in spoken language. ► Shows growing awareness of beginning and ending sounds of
words. ►
Progresses
in recognizing matching sounds and rhymes in familiar words, games, songs,
stories, and poems.
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Shows
growing ability to hear and discriminate separate syllables in words. × Associates sounds with written words, such as
awareness that different words being with the same sound. |
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× Book Knowledge & Appreciation |
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Shows
growing interest and involvement in listening to and discussing a variety of
fiction and non-fiction books and poetry. ►
Shows
growing interest in reading-related activities, such as asking to have a
favorite book read; choosing to look at books; drawing pictures based on
stories; asking to take books home; going to the library; and engaging in
pretend-reading with other children. ►
Demonstrates
progress in abilities to retell and dictate stories from books and
experiences; to act out stories in dramatic play; and to predict what will
happen next in a story.
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Progresses
in learning how to handle and care for books; knowing to view one page at a
time in sequence from front to back; and understanding that a book has a
title, author, and illustrator. |
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× Print Awareness & Concepts |
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Shows
increasing awareness of print in classroom, home, and community settings. ►
Develops
growing understanding of the different functions of forms of prints such as
signs, letters, newspapers, lists, messages, and menus. ►
Demonstrates
increasing awareness of concepts of print, such as that reading in English
moves from top to bottom and from left to right, that speech can be written
down, and that print conveys a message. ►
Shows
progress in recognizing the association between spoken and written words by
following print as it is read aloud. × Recognizes a word as a unit of print, or
awareness that letters are grouped to form words, and that words are
separated by spaces.
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Early
Writing |
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Develops
understanding that writing is a way of communicating for a variety of
purposes. ►
Begins
to represent stories and experiences through pictures, dictation, and in
play. ►
Experiments
with a growing variety of writing tools and materials, such as pencils,
crayons, and computers.
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Progresses
from using scribbles, shapes or pictures to represent ideas, to using
letter-like symbols, to copying or writing familiar words such as their own
name. |
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Alphabet
Knowledge |
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Shows
progress in associating the names of letters with their shapes and sounds. ►
Increases
in ability to notice the beginning letters in familiar words. × Identifies at least 10 letters of the alphabet, especially
those in their own name.
× Knows that letters of the alphabet are a special category
of visual graphics that can be individually named. |
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× Indicates the 4 specific Domain Elements and 9 Indicators
that are legislatively mandated. |
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Eight Domains of the Head Start Child Outcomes Framework |
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