SKILL PROGRESSIONS FOR ESD GOAL 6: Children identify, manage, and express their feelings. Skill progression A. Emotional expression Skill progression B. Self-control Subdomain: Learning About Feelings ESD Goal 6: Children identify, manage, and express their feelings. Emotional 1-2 months 2-4 months 4-6 months 6-8 months 8-10 months 10-12 months expression Demonstrates a Smiles with joy in Demonstrates Demonstrates a Emotions expand Demonstrates range of basic face-to-face emotions by variety of to include social referencing emotions, interaction making sounds of emotions, surprise, shyness, by looking to adult including pleasure and including fear of strangers, to see how she interest, displeasure sadness, anger, and intense should feel distress, disgust combined with disgust, worry, concentration facial expressions fear, and curiosity during problem solving Objects when play Demonstrates is interrupted with anger and negative wariness vocalizations and facial expressions 12-15 months 15-18 months 18-21 months 21-24 months 24-27 months 27-30 months Demonstrates Demonstrates Demonstrates Talks about Extensive Produces complex recognition that exaggerated facial embarrassment emotions (happy, emotional (but subtle) facial his action was expression as a and pride, smiles mad) and states vocabulary, but expressions, not acceptable game to get a when engaged in (tired, hungry) still may hit or depicting doubt, (showing guilt) response from an a joint activity bite to express worry, confusion, adult with adult anger or exhilaration, and frustration joy 30-33 months 33-36 months 36-42 months 42-48 months 48-54 months 54-60 months Talks about the Talks about past Full range of Exhibits jealousy Recognizes that Feelings easily emotions of and future feelings emotions evident and anger at all feelings are “hurt” by others others and the as well as the including envy, others, but also acceptable, but saying or doing
SKILL PROGRESSIONS FOR ESD GOAL 6: Children identify, manage, and express their feelings. Skill progression A. Emotional expression Skill progression B. Self-control Subdomain: Learning About Feelings ESD Goal 6: Children identify, manage, and express their feelings. Emotional expression 1-2 months 2-4 months 4-6 months 6-8 months 8-10 months 10-12 months Demonstrates a range of basic emotions, including interest, distress, disgust Smiles with joy in face-to-face interaction Demonstrates emotions by making sounds of pleasure and displeasure combined with facial expressions Demonstrates a variety of emotions, including sadness, anger, disgust, worry, fear, and curiosity Emotions expand to include surprise, shyness, fear of strangers, and intense concentration during problem solving Demonstrates social referencing by looking to adult to see how she should feel Objects when play is interrupted with negative vocalizations and facial expressions Demonstrates anger and wariness 12-15 months 15-18 months 18-21 months 21-24 months 24-27 months 27-30 months Demonstrates recognition that his action was not acceptable (showing guilt) Demonstrates exaggerated facial expression as a game to get a response from an adult Demonstrates embarrassment and pride, smiles when engaged in a joint activity with adult Talks about emotions (happy, mad) and states (tired, hungry) Extensive emotional vocabulary, but still may hit or bite to express anger or frustration Produces complex (but subtle) facial expressions, depicting doubt, worry, confusion, exhilaration, and joy 30-33 months 33-36 months 36-42 months 42-48 months 48-54 months 54-60 months Talks about the emotions of others and the Talks about past and future feelings as well as the Full range of emotions evident including envy, Exhibits jealousy and anger at others, but also Recognizes that all feelings are acceptable, but Feelings easily “hurt” by others saying or doing
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