Belmont County Community Action Commission – Head Start School Readiness Goals
Head Start Child
Development and Early
Learning Framework
Domain: Social/Emotional
Development
Element: Social
Relationships
Indicator: The healthy
relationships and
interactions with adults
and peers
Domain: Social/Emotional
Development
Element: Self-Concept and
Self-Efficacy
Indicator: The perception
that one
is capable of successfully
making
decisions, accomplishing
tasks and
Ohio Early Learning and
Development Standards
The Creative Curriculum for
Preschool alignment
Content Area: Social and
Emotional Development
Strand: Self
Topics: Attachment & Peer
Interactions and
Relationships
Standard/Content
Statement:
Initiate interactions and seek
close proximity to familiar
adults who provide
consistent nurturing.
Interact with peers in more
complex pretend play
including planning,
coordination of roles and
cooperation.
Demonstrate socially
competent behavior with
peers
Establishes and sustains
positive relationships (peers)
Interacts with peers
Interacts cooperatively in a
group of 4 or 5 children
Uses successful strategies for
entering groups
Content Area: Social and
Emotional Development
Strand: Self
Topic: Sense of Competence
Standard/Content
Statement: Show confidence
in own abilities and
accomplish routine and
familiar tasks independently.
Demonstrates confidence in
meeting own needs
Establishes & sustains
positive relationships (adults)
Forms relationships with
adults
Demonstrates a secure
relationship with one or more
adults
Teaching Strategies GOLD
Area of Development &
Learning/Objectives
Area of development: SocialEmotional
Objectives: regulates own
emotions and behavior,
establishes and sustains
positive relationships, and
participates cooperatively and
constructively in group
situations
Aligned School
Readiness Goals
Children will be
capable of developing
healthy relationships
with peers and adults.
Children will develop
cooperative behaviors,
such as, helping, turn
talking, sharing,
comforting, and
compromising.
Indicators: Goals 1 (a-c), 2 (ad), 3 (a-b)
Children will develop a
perception that they are
capable of successfully
making decisions,
accomplishing tasks and
meeting goals.
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meeting goals.
Domain: Social/Emotional
Development
Element: Self-Regulation
Indicator: The ability to
recognize and regulate
emotions, attention,
impulses and behavior
Content Area: Social and
Emotional Development
Strand: Self
Topic: Self Regulation
Standard/Content
Statement: Manage the
expression of feelings
thoughts, impulses and
behaviors with minimal
guidance from adults
.
Regulates own emotions and
behavior
Manages feelings
Controls strong emotions in
an appropriate manner, most
of the time.
Area of development: SocialEmotional
Domain: Social/Emotional
Development
Element: Emotional and
Behavioral Health
Indicator: A healthy range
of emotional expression
and learning positive
alternatives to aggressive
or isolating behaviors.
Content Area: Social and
Emotional Development
Strand: Self
Topic: Self Regulation
Standard/Content
Statement: Manage the
Regulates own feelings and
behavior
Area of development: SocialEmotional
Controls strong emotions in
an appropriate manner, most
of the time.
Objectives: regulates own
emotions and behavior,
Domain: Physical Health
and Development
Element: Physical Health
Status
Indicator: Maintenance of
healthy and age
appropriate well being
Content Area: Physical Wellbeing
And Motor Development
Strand: Physical Well-being
Topic: Nutrition/Physical
Activity
Standard/Content
expression of feelings thoughts,
impulses and behaviors with
minimal guidance from adults
With modeling and support,
negotiate to resolve social
conflicts with peers.
Objectives: regulates own
emotions and behavior,
Children will develop
the ability to recognize,
identify, and regulate
emotions and
impulses.
Indicators: Goals 1 (a-c)
Children will develop a
healthy range of
emotional expression
and learn positive
alternatives to aggressive
or isolating behaviors
Indicators: Goals 1 (a-c)
Takes responsibility for own
well-being
Children will
demonstrate a basic
understanding that
eating a variety of foods
helps the body grow and
be healthy, distinguish
nutritious foods from
Belmont County Community Action Commission – Head Start School Readiness Goals
Statement:
Demonstrate basic
understanding that eating a
variety of foods helps the
body grow and be healthy
Distinguish nutritious foods
from non-nutritious foods
Demonstrate basic
understanding that physical
activity helps the body grow
and be healthy.
Domain: Physical Health
and Development
Element: Health
Knowledge and Practice
Indicator: The
understanding of healthy
and safe habits and
practicing healthy habits
Content Area: Physical
Health and Well-being and
Motor Development
Strand: Physical Well-being
Topic: Self-help/Safety
Practices
Standard/Content
Statement: Independently
non-nutritious foods, and
understand the benefits
of daily physical
activity/exercise.
Takes responsibility for own
well-being
Children will
demonstrate an
understanding of
health and safety
guidelines and show
the ability to
participate in their own
health and safety
routines.
complete personal care tasks (i.e.
toileting, teeth brushing, hand
washing, dressing, etc…)
Follow basic health practices
With modeling and support,
identify rules and follow basic
safety rules
Identify ways adults help to keep us
safe
Domain Physical Health
and Development
Element: Gross Motor
Skills
Indicator: The control of
large muscles for
Content Area: Physical
Health and Well-Being and
Motor Development
Strand: Motor Development
Topic: Large Muscle, Balance
and Coordination
Demonstrates traveling skills
Moves purposefully from place
to place with control
Demonstrates balancing skills
Manipulates balls or similar
objects with flexible body
Area of development: Physical
Objectives: demonstrate
traveling skills, demonstrates
balancing skills, demonstrates
gross-motor manipulative skills
Children will gain control
of large muscles for
movement, navigation,
and balance.
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movement, navigation and
balance.
Domain Physical Health
and Development
Element: Fine Motor Skills
Indicator: The control of
small muscles for such
purposes as using utensils,
self-care, building and
exploring
Domain: Approaches to
Learning
Element: Initiative &
Curiosity
Indicator: An interest in
Standard/Content
Statement: Demonstrate
locomotor skills with control,
coordination and balance
during active play (e.g.
running, hopping, skipping)
Demonstrate coordination in
using objects during active
play (e.g. throwing, catching,
kicking balls, riding tricycles)
Content Area: Physical
Health and Well-being and
motor development
Strand: Motor Development
Topic: Small muscle: Touch
grasp, reach, manipulate
Standard/Content
Statement: Coordinate the
use of hands, fingers and
wrists to manipulate objects
to perform tasks requiring
precise movements
Use classroom and
household tools
independently with eyehand coordination to carry
out activities.
movements
Indicators: Goal 4-6
Demonstrates fine motor
strength and coordination
Uses fingers and hands
Uses refined wrist and finger
movements
Area of development: Physical
Content Area: Approaches
toward learning
Strand: Initiative
Topic: Initiative and
Curiosity/Engagement and
Demonstrates positive
approaches to learning
Shows curiosity and
motivation
Shows eagerness to learn
Objectives: demonstrates finemotor strength and
coordination
Indicators: Goal 7 (a-b)
Children will
demonstrate the ability
to manipulate a variety
of objects requiring
small muscle
coordination. (eating
utensils, writing
utensils etc)
Children will use a 3finger grasp of dominant
hand to hold a writing
tool
Area of development:
Cognitive
Objectives: demonstrates
positive approaches to
Children will develop
the ability to notice,
observe intently, and
seek relative
information about
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varied topics and activities,
desire to learn,
creativeness, and
independence in learning
Persistence
Standard/Content
Statement: Demonstrate self
direction while participating
in a range of activities and
routines
Focus on an activity with
deliberate concentration
despite distractions
about a variety of new topics
and ideas
learning, remembers and
connects experiences, uses
classification skills, uses
symbols and images to
represent something not
present
Domain: Approaches to
Learning
Element: Persistence and
Attentiveness
Indicator: The ability to
begin and finish activities
with persistence and
attention.
Content Area: Approaches
toward Learning
Strand: Initiative
Topic: Planning, Action and
Reflection
Standard/Content
Statement: Develop, initiate
and carry out simple plans to
obtain a goal
Demonstrates positive
approaches to learning
Solves problems
Thinks problems through,
considering several
possibilities and analyzing
results.
Area of development:
Cognitive
Domain: Language
Development
Element: Expressive
Language
Indicator: The ability to
use language
Content Area: Language and
Literacy Development,
Strand: Listening and
Speaking
Topic: Receptive Language
and Comprehension,
Expressive Language
Standard/Content
Statement: Demonstrate
understanding of
increasingly complex
concepts and longer
Uses appropriate
conversational and other
communication skills
Engages in conversation
Uses language to express
thoughts and needs
Uses an expanding expressive
vocabulary
Area of development:
Language
Indicators: Goals 11-14
Objectives: demonstrates
positive approaches to learning
objects or
circumstances, observe
similarities and
differences, notice
attributes, and
examine with attention
to detail.
Children will develop
the ability to begin and
complete activities
with persistence and
attention.
Indicators: Goals 11 (a-b)
Objectives: listens and
understands increasingly
complex language, uses
language to express thoughts
and needs, uses appropriate
conversational and other
communication skills
Indicators: Goals 8-10
Children will
develop/strengthen
the ability to use and
comprehend language.
Children will develop
the ability to express
themselves clearly,
using words, follow
directions and hold
conversations with
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Domain: Literacy
Knowledge and Skills
Element: Book
Appreciation and
Knowledge
Indicator: The interest in
books and
their characteristics, and
the ability
to understand and get
meaning
from stories and
information from
books and other texts.
Domain: Literacy
Knowledge and Skills
Element: Phonological
Awareness
Indicator: awareness that
language can be broken
into words, syllables and
smaller pieces of sound.
sentences. Speak audibly
and express thoughts,
feelings and ideas clearly
(articulation)
Ask questions to seek
explanations about
phenomena of interest
Content Area: Language and
Literacy Development
Strand: Reading
Topic: Reading
Comprehension, Print
Concepts
Standard/Content
Statement: With modeling
and support, describe what
part of the story the
illustration depicts
With modeling and support,
recognize and “read” familiar
words or environmental
print
Orient books correctly for
reading and turn pages one
at a time
Content Area: Language and
literacy development
Strand: Reading
Topic: Phonological
Awareness
Standard/Content
Statement: With Modeling
and support, recognize and
adults and peers.
Comprehends and responds
to books and other texts
Re-tells stories
Interacts during read-alouds
and book conversations
Identifies story-related
problems and resolutions
during conversation with
adult
Demonstrates knowledge of
print and its uses
Uses and appreciates books
Shows understanding that
text is meaningful and can be
read
Area of development: Literacy
Demonstrates phonological
awareness
Notices and discriminates
rhyme
Notices and discriminates
smaller and smaller units of
sound
Area of development: Literacy
Objectives: demonstrates
phonological awareness,
demonstrates knowledge of
the alphabet, demonstrates
knowledge of print and its uses,
comprehends and responds to
books and other texts,
demonstrates emergent
writing skills.
Children will show an
appreciation for books,
and understand print
concepts.
Indicators: Goals 15-19
Objectives: demonstrates
phonological awareness,
Indicators: Goals 15 (a-c)
Children will develop
an awareness that
language can be
broken into syllables,
and the ability to
rhyme.
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produce rhyming words
With modeling and support,
identify, blend and segment
syllables in spoken words
Hears and shows awareness
of separate words in
sentences
Content Area: Language and
Literacy Development
Strand: Reading
Topic: Letter and word
recognition
Standard/Content
Statement:
With modeling and support
recognize and name some
upper and lower case letters
in addition to those in first
name
With modeling and support,
recognize the sounds
associated with letters
Domain:
Literacy Content Area: Language and
Knowledge and Skills
Literacy Development
Element: Early Writing
Strand: Writing
Indicator: The familiarity
Topic: Early Writing
with writing implements,
Standard/Content
conventions, and emerging Statement:
skills to communicate
With modeling and support,
through written
print letters of own name
representations, symbols
and other meaningful words
and letters.
with mock letters and some
actual letters
Demonstrates knowledge of
print and its uses
Identifies and names letters
Identifies and names 11-20
upper and 11-20 lowercase
letters when presented in
random order
Area of development: Literacy
Demonstrates fine motor
strength and coordination
Uses writing and drawing
tools
Holds writing and drawing
tools using a 3 point finger
grip but may hold the
instrument too close at one
end
Area of development: Literacy
Domain: Literacy
Knowledge and Skills
Element: Alphabet
Knowledge
Indicator: The names and
sounds associated with
letters
Objectives : demonstrates
knowledge of the alphabet
Indicators: Goals 16 (a-b)
Objectives : demonstrates
emergent writing skills
Indicators: Goals 19 (a-b)
Children will show
alphabet knowledge
through upper and
lowercase letter
recognition, and letter
sounds, beginning with
the letters in their first
name.
Children will
develop/improve the
ability to write
recognizable letters,
and to write (at least)
their first names using
proper capital and
lower case letters.
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Domain:
Mathematics
Knowledge and Skills
Element:
Number
Concepts and Quantities
Indicator:
The
understanding
that
numbers
represent
quantities and have ordinal
properties (number words
represent a rank order,
particular size, or position
in a list)
Domain:
Mathematics
Knowledge and Skills
Element:
Number
Relationships
and
Operations
Indicator: The use of
numbers
to
describe
relationships and solve
problems.
Content Area: Cognition and
General Knowledge
Strand: Mathematics-Number
Sense, Measurement and Data
Topic: Number Sense and
Counting. Describe and compare
measurable attributes
Standard/Content Statement:
Identify and name numerals 1-9
Demonstrate one to one
correspondence when counting
objects up to 10
Identify whether the number of
objects in a group is greater than,
less than or equal to the number of
objects in another group up to 10
Describe and compare objects
using measurable attributes (e.g.
length, size, capacity and weight)
Uses number concepts and
operations
Counts
Verbally to 20; counts 10-20
objects accurately, knows the
last number states how many in
all
Tells what number (1-10) comes
next in order when counting
Connects numerals with their
quantities
Identifies written numerals to 10
by name and connects each to
counted objects
Content Area: Cognition and
General Knowledge
Strand: MathematicsNumber Relationships and
Operations
Topic: Number Relationships
Standard/Content
Statement: Count to solve
simple addition and
subtraction problems with
totals smaller than 8, using
concrete objects
Uses number concepts and
operations
Quantifies using a variety of
strategies to solve problems
with more than 10 objects
Domain:
Mathematics Content Area: Cognition
Knowledge and Skills
and General Knowledge
Area of Development:
Mathematics
Objectives: uses number
concepts and operations,
explores and describes spatial
relationships, compares and
measures, demonstrates
knowledge of patterns
Indicators: Goals 20-23
Children under age 4 will
verbally county to 10
using one-to-one
correspondence.
Children over age 4 will
count to 20, counting 1020 objects accurately.
Children under age 4 will
correctly identity written
numbers 0-10, children
over age 4 will correctly
identify written numbers
0-20.
Children will develop the
understanding that
numbers represent
quantities.
Area of Development:
Mathematics
Objectives: uses number
concepts and operations
Children will
demonstrate the ability
to use numbers to
solve problems.
Indicators: Goals 20 (a-c)
Uses classification skills
Places objects in tow or more
Area of Development:
Mathematics
Children will be able to
identify shapes, and
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Element: Geometry and
Spatial Sense
Indicator:
The
understanding of shapes,
their properties and how
objects are related to one
another.
Strand Algebra
Topic: Group and
categorize
Standard/Content
Statement: Sort and
classify objects by one or
more attributes
groups based on differences
in a single characteristic
(color, size, shape, etc)
Domain:
Mathematics
Knowledge and Skills
Element: Patterns
Indicator: The recognition
of
patterns, sequencing, and
critical
thinking
skills
necessary to predict and
classify object in a pattern.
Content Area: Cognition and
General Knowledge
Strand: MathematicsAlgebra
Topic: Patterning
Standard/Content
Statement: Recognize,
duplicate and extend simple
patterns using attributes
such as color, shape or size
Demonstrates knowledge of
patterns
Extends and creates simple
repeating patterns
Domain:
Science
Knowledge and
Skills
Element: Scientific Skills
and
Method
Indicator: The skills to
observe
and
collect
information and use it to
ask questions, predict,
explain
and
draw
conclusions.
Content Area: Cognition and
General Knowledge
Sub-domain: Science
Strand: Science Inquiry &
Application Inquiry
Topic: Inquiry
Standard/Content
Statement: Explore objects,
material and events in the
environment, Pose questions
about the physical and
natural environment, Engage
in simple investigations,
Make predictions, and make
inferences, generalizations
Uses scientific inquiry skills
Demonstrates positive
approaches to learning
Shows curiosity and
motivation
Shows eagerness to learn
about a variety of new topics
and ideas
Objectives explores and
describes spatial relationships
Indicators: Goals 21 (a-b)
Area of Development:
Mathematics
Objectives: , demonstrates
knowledge of patterns
sort and classify
objects based on
attributes (size, color,
etc)
Children will develop
recognition of patterns,
sequencing, and critical
thinking skills necessary
to predict, and classify
objects in a pattern.
Indicators: Goals 23
Area of development: Science
and technology
Objectives: uses scientific
inquiry skills, demonstrates
knowledge of the
characteristics of living things,
demonstrates knowledge of
the physical properties of
objects and materials, and uses
tools and other technology to
perform tasks.
Indicators: Goals 24-28
Children will explore
their surroundings
through observation,
manipulating, making
predictions,
comparing, classifying,
and communicating
their findings to others.
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and explanations based on
evidence.
Domain:
Science
Knowledge and
Skills
Element:
Conceptual
Knowledge of the Natural
and physical world
Indicator: The acquisition
of
Concepts and facts related
to the natural and physical
world
and
the
understanding of naturallyoccurring relationships
Content Area: Cognition and
General Knowledge
Strand: Science Inquiry and
Application
Topic: Inquiry
Standard/Content
Statement:
Observe, hold, touch, and
manipulate objects
Area of development: Science
and technology
Objectives : demonstrates
knowledge of the
characteristics of living things,
demonstrates knowledge of
the physical properties of
objects and materials
Indicators: Goals 25-26
(see above goal)