Learning to Communicate

-Goal LDC-1: Children understand communication from others.

-Goal LDC-2: Children participate in conversations with peers and adults in one-on-one, small, and larger group interactions.

Goal LDC-3: Children ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.

-Goal LDC-4: Children speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.

-Goal LDC-5: Children describe familiar people, places, things, and events.

-Goal LDC-6: Children use most grammatical constructions of their home language well.

-Goal LDC-7: Children respond to and use a growing vocabulary.

Foundations for Reading

-Goal LDC-8: Children develop interest in books and motivation to read.

-Goal LDC-11: Children develop phonological awareness. 

-Goal LDC-12: Children develop knowledge of the alphabet and the alphabetic principle.

Foundations for Writing

-Goal LDC-13: Children use writing and other symbols to record information and communicate for a variety of purposes.

-Goal LDC-14: Children use knowledge of letters in their attempts to write.

-Goal LDC-15: Children use writing skills and writing conventions.