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Early Childhood Indicators of Progress
strategies for FAMILY MEMBERS to facilitate:
Domain: Social and Emotional Development
Emotional Development
- Respond to children’s emotional and physical needs with warmth and reassurance
- Establish predictable family routines while being flexible to meet children’s needs
- Encourage children to talk about their feelings and the feelings of others
- Positively reinforce children in coping constructively with frustration and conflict
- Model appropriate conflict resolution strategies both verbally and nonverbally
- Provide children with practice in thinking of solutions and anticipating consequences
- Help children identify and understand emotions they feel
Self-Concept
- Provide children with warm, loving relationships
- Watch for children’s interests and suggest activities to support them
- Encourage child to try new things by sharing and learning together
- Support children’s awareness of and pride in their cultural heritage
Social Competence and Relationships
- Help children practice listening and talking
- Help children understand and appreciate similarities and differences among people
- Provide children the opportunity to know and understand their culture and the culture of others
- Help children develop understanding of the
feelings, ideas, and actions of others - Model positive ways to interact with others
- Use peaceful conflict resolution strategies
- Encourage children to help others
Domain: Approaches to Learning
Curiosity
- Encourage children’s interest and excitement in discovery and exploration
- Share activities and experiences where children and adults learn new things together
- Encourage children to make choices in materials and activities
- Plan family outings to interesting places such as parks, markets, and museums
- Provide a variety of materials and activities in the home environment
- Help children learn about and explore their neighborhood and community
Risk-Taking
- Encourage children to try new things and solve problems creatively
- Respond positively to mistakes or errors
- Introduce everyday household materials and toys that can be used in more than one way
- Monitor children’s use of media including television, video/DVD, and computer
Imagination and Invention
- Provide opportunities for children to experiment with new materials and activities without fear of making mistakes
- Provide a variety of familiar and new materials and activities for children to explore
- Encourage children to try new approaches to solving problems
- Encourage pretend and make-believe play
Persistence
- Provide places and times where children can play or work at tasks without interruptions
- Provide age-appropriate materials and activities
- Respond to children’s requests when help is needed without being intrusive
- Encourage chidren’s attention and persistence at tasks
Reflection and Interpretation
- Encourage children to share their thoughts and ideas about the world around them
- Ask questions that will encourage children to think about what they have seen, heard, and done
- Model thinking “out loud” and talk about ideas with children
- Involve children in planning family activities such as vacations or trips to the library or museum
Domain: Language and Literacy Development
Listening
- Talk with children using language appropriate to their level of understanding
- Encourage children in conversation and notice and respond to what children say and do
- Use mealtimes and other daily routines as an opportunity for conversation
- Use rhymes and songs with children to increase children’s interest in language sounds and words
- Engage children in simple tasks that require an action or verbal response
Speaking
- Respond to children’s attempts to communicate using gestures, actions, or words
- Talk with children in home language and/or English and encourage children’s use of home language
- Encourage children to discuss and add to stories read to them
- Use language in everyday activities with children and talk about their actions, thoughts, and ideas
- Provide opportunities for children to talk and interact with other children and adults
Emergent Reading
- Read to children often for pleasure and information
- Point out the names of things, signs, labels, etc., in the neighborhood or store
- Make book-reading time special for your child
- Call attention to books, newspapers, and magazines in the home
- Visit a library often and check out books to read
- Ask children questions about the stories read together
- Encourage children to talk about and predict what will happen next in a story
- Repeat nursery rhymes and play word games
Emergent Writing
- Provide writing materials in the home such as paper, pencils, crayons, and markers
- Support young children’s interest in scribbles and pretend writing
- Encourage children to participate in activities that involve reading and writing, such as making a grocery list
- Use writing to communicate with others with a card or letter
- Help children recognize own name and allow children to practice writing letters
Domain: Creativity and the Arts
Creating
- Provide opportunities to explore and experiment with a variety of art materials and experiences
- Participate in community arts activities with family
- Encourage children’s interest in music, creative movement, and dance
- Display children’s artwork at home
Responding
- Show interest in creative and artistic activities of your child and others
- Encourage awareness and appreciation of the arts and creative expression of your own and other cultural groups
- Participate in activities to encourage creativity
Evaluating
- Encourage children to discuss their own art activities and the artistic work of others
- Discuss children’s likes and dislikes about the arts and creative expression
- Encourage children to respect their work and the work of others
- Attend community arts events and encourage discussion and reflection
Domain: Cognitive Development
Mathematical and Logical Thinking
- Provide opportunities for children to explore number, measurement, and patterns using household materials and experiences
- Provide opportunities for children to count, group, and order household objects and materials
- Provide opportunities for conversation using everyday words to indicate space, location, shape, and size of objects
- Read children’s books together about numbers, counting, shapes, and other concepts
Scientific Thinking and Problem-Solving
- Take walks in the neighborhood or community to observe natural objects and events
- Help children experience the world of nature
- Discuss objects and events that have been observed indoors and outdoors
- Encourage children to ask questions and find answers through active experimentation
- Encourage sand and water play and try growing things
Social Systems Understanding
- Help children describe and appreciate their own characteristics and those of others in the family
- Help children understand family roles, jobs, rules, and relationships
- Discuss family events and relationships within the family
- Participate as a family in community service projects
- Talk about the jobs people do in the community
- Discuss how people affect the environment
- Help children recall recent and past events and relationships about the family
- Explore and talk about land, water, and other features in the community
- Discuss technology used at home and in the neighborhood
Domain: Physical and Motor Development
Gross Motor Development
- Support children’s needs to move and be active
- Provide opportunities and time for outdoor large motor play
- Encourage children to learn and practice new skills
- Make physical activity part of everyday life
Fine Motor Development
- Provide opportunities for manipulation of small objects or tools in normal daily activities
- Provide opportunities for play with small manipulative objects and toys (e.g., puzzles, blocks, beads)
- Provide opportunities and materials for writing and drawing in the home
- Model uses of writing and drawing in everyday tasks
Physical Health and Well-Being
- Secure adequate nutrition for children
- Establish routines for eating, rest, and bedtime
- Ensure adequate exercise and physical activity
- Take children for regular well-child and dental examinations
- Take children for developmental, vision, and hearing screening
- Provide safe home and play environments for children
- Show children how to take care of personal care tasks, and help them when necessary (e.g., brushing teeth, wiping nose)
- Encourage children to show independence in self-care tasks (e.g., dressing, toileting, washing hands, feeding oneself)
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