Blackfeet Early Childhood Center <> Head Start Child Outcomes Framework <> Literacy

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Browning, Montana 59417
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Head Start Child Outcomes Framework Literacy

DOMAIN	DOMAIN ELEMENT	INDICATORS
	× Phonological Awareness	► 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. ► 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.
	× Book Knowledge & Appreciation	► 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. ► 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.
	× Print Awareness & Concepts	► 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.
	Early Writing	► 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. ► 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.
	Alphabet Knowledge	► 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.

× 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