DOMAIN: Language Development and Communication
SUBDOMAIN: Foundations for Reading
DEVELOPMENTAL INDICATORS
Infants (Birth to 12 months):
- Pat and chew on books
- Look at pictures of faces and simple objects
- Listen to simple and repetitive books, stories, and songs.
Younger Toddlers (8 to 21 months):
- Engage in reading behaviors independently (choose books, turn pages but not always in order, tell the story).
- Show interest in books (e.g., tactile and picture books).
- Listen to simple and repetitive books, stories, and songs for a brief time.
- Carry books around, “name” them, and select books for adults to read out loud.
Older Toddlers (18 to 36 months)
- Engage in reading behaviors independently (choose books, turn pages but not always in order, tell the story).
- Listen for short periods of time to storybooks, informational books, stories, poetry, songs, and finger plays.
Younger Preschoolers (36 to 48 months)
- Engage in reading behaviors independently (choose books, turn pages but not always in order, tell the story).
- Show an interest in books, other print, and reading related activities.
- Listen to and discuss storybooks, simple information books, and poetry.
Older Preschoolers (48 to 60+ months)
- Engage in reading behaviors independently with increased focus for longer periods of time.
- Use and share books and print in their play.
- Listen to and discuss increasingly complex storybooks, information books and poetry.
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