Development

This checklist is organized by fine and gross motor skills.

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Use this simple form to record a child's observed development.

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Use this form to analyze a child's abilities in the following areas:  play, self-help, self-concept, social, language/communication, motor, dispositions, problem solving, math, and literacy.

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Includes four different sets of checklists: Infant, Toddler, Young Child, Preschool.  Empower yourself as your child's first teacher!

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Check either yes or no for each question to help determine your toddler's language abilities.

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Analyze a child's initiation of an activity, their attention span, curiousity, frustration tolerance, relationship with teacher, acceptance of routines and limits, reactions to adults other than teacher, and interactions with other children.

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18 months through 5 years.  Print these as a handy reference to monitor your child's development!

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Identify a child's motor skills and self-help abilities with this checklist.

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Analyze your child's speech and language skills.

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Record the highest level at which more than half of the descriptors apply to a writing sample or collection of a child's writing.  Refer to the anchor papers for examples of writing at each level.  (Emerging, Pictorial, Precommunicative, Semiphonetic)

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Stages of Writing & Language Development:

Stage 1. Random Scribbling.

Children make marks on paper randomly with little muscular control, using a scrubbing motion (2 and 3-year olds).

Stage 2. Controlled Scribbling.

Children "write" across the paper in a linear fashion, repeating patterns over again, showing increased muscular control (3 year olds).

Stage 3. Letter-Like Forms.

Children make mock letters. These are written lines of letters that have letter characteristics but they are misshapen and written randomly, often covering the page. They like to pretend they are writing, and in their work they separate writing from drawing. They have purpose to their letter-like forms (3 and 4 year olds).

Stage 4. Letter and Symbol Relationship.

Children write letters to represent words and syllables. They can write their name. They know that a word represents their name. They can copy words. Reversals, or loss of a developmental gain, are frequent (4 year olds).

Stage 5. Invented Spelling.

Children make the transition from letter forms to invented spelling. This requires organization of letters and words on the page. They use a group of l~tters to form a word. Many of the letters will be consonants. They understand that letters relate to sounds. Some punctuation is used. They can copy words seen in their environment (4 and 5 year olds).

Stage 6. Standard Spelling.

Most of the words the children use are written correctly, some add punctuation. They organize their words in lines with spaces in between, and they move from the left to the right and from the top of the page to the bottom (5-, 6-, and 7-year olds).  Revising and editing.  

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This form will help you determine what type of play is going on with your students.

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G and I were feeling adventurous this morning and decided to try this 2 ingredient cloud dough recipe I've been sitting on.

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In these tough economic times, we should be investing in Early Childhood Education!

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Developmental writing stages: pictorial - emergent - developing

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10 simple things to keep in mind when reading with babies.

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The Developmental Checklist - Four to Five Years provides the user with a list to use when evaluating the development of a 4-5-year-old child. The list includes categories for movement, hand and finger skills, language milestones, cognitive milestones and social milestones. 

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Short and sweet list.  Includes developmental milestones for 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months of age.

Areas of develoment include motor skills, sensory/thinking skills, and language/social skills.

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Although food manufacturers have pledged to voluntarily eliminate bisphenol A (BPA)—an endocrine disruptor linked to developmental problems in fetuses, infants and children—in their packaging materials, it’s still found in the lining of many canned goods.

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Set the foundation for a healthy life for your child(ren) by doing these 4 things.

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