with the simple words Shows print, same sound) (go, cat, pop) understanding familiar that a words and sequence of within early letters stages of represents a writing. sequence of spoken sounds to support reading and writing words. Student Name 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 New Mexico Early Childhood Observation Tool Essential Indicators Domain 2 Literacy Outcome 8 The child demonstrates that writing is a way of communicating for a variety of purposes. Indicator 8.3 Understands how to apply the early stages of drawing and writing to convey meaning. Making Progress for Making Progress Accomplished for Making Progress Accomplished for First Steps for 3s First Steps for 4s 3s for 4s 4s for K K Pretends to Makes early Understands Draws simple Creates Provides more Creates a write and approximations that his/her pictures to drawings and detail when product that experiment with horizontal marks or represent writing to combining uses a with various or vertical sets scribbles are their ideas and represent drawing and writing / of lines or conveying shares meaningful writing to of drawing drawing scribbles ideas. thoughts by ideas on paper convey their and writing to ELG tools by intending to May write a writing words with some meanings on represent to making represent series of with mock level of clarity. paper. ideas relevant marks or letters. (sharing scribbles letters Print may Will observe a to a topic / Refer scribbles to what they separated by forms) - transition transition of theme on represent wrote to an spaces (sharing what from mock random letter paper in some ideas adult). representing they wrote to letters to strings and the detail. (sharing their an adult) random letter early stage of Will observe what they understanding strings. (May semi-phonetic complete wrote to an of the sound rely on writing where sentences adult). structure of dictation with the child written down
with the same sound) print, familiar words and within early stages of writing. simple words (go, cat, pop) Shows understanding that a sequence of letters represents a sequence of spoken sounds to support reading and writing words. Student Name 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 New Mexico Early Childhood Observation Tool Essential Indicators Domain 2 Literacy Outcome 8 The child demonstrates that writing is a way of communicating for a variety of purposes. Indicator 8.3 Understands how to apply the early stages of drawing and writing to convey meaning. Refer to ELG First Steps for 3s Making Progress for 3s First Steps for 4s Making Progress for 4s Accomplished for 4s Making Progress for K Accomplished for K Pretends to write and experiment with various writing / drawing tools by making marks or scribbles to represent ideas (sharing what they wrote to an adult). Makes early approximations with horizontal or vertical sets of lines or scribbles intending to represent letters. (sharing what they wrote to an adult). Understands that his/her marks or scribbles are conveying ideas. May write a series of scribbles separated by spaces representing their understanding of the sound structure of Draws simple pictures to represent their ideas and shares thoughts by writing words with mock letters forms) - (sharing what they wrote to an adult) Creates drawings and writing to represent meaningful ideas on paper with some level of clarity. Print may transition from mock letters to random letter strings. (May rely on dictation with Provides more detail when combining drawing and writing to convey their meanings on paper. Will observe a transition of random letter strings and the early stage of semi-phonetic writing where the child Creates a product that uses a of drawing and writing to represent ideas relevant to a topic / theme on paper in some detail. Will observe complete sentences written down
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