Skill Progression 1-2 months 2-4 months 4-6 months 6-8 months 8-10 months 10-12 months Classifying Scans contours Scans internal Explores with Uses shape, Uses haptic Uses cross-modal details hands and fingers sound, color, and (touch) (vision, taste, to determine texture to identify exploration to touch, sound, etc.) properties of object determine size, approaches to objects hardness, shape, determine object’s temperature, and properties texture Recognizes Starts to Categorizes and sounds of categorize and distinguishes parents’ voices distinguish objects by function objects with or behavior similar appearance 12-15 months 15-18 months 18-21 months 21-24 months 24-27 months 27-30 months Places objects Matches objects Makes collections Demonstrates Beginning to think Thinks many things into categories of things that are knowledge of about how things are alive that are (blocks, animals, alike in some way basic-level in the world are not, but beginning food) (toys with wheels) categories (plants, alike (rocks, trees, to understand alive animals, people) flowers, etc.) and not alive Selects, Knows body parts Matches familiar Compares and Knows clothing Names at least one discriminates, objects (picks out matches form, for different color compares and socks from shirts) size, color occasions sorts by color and Sorts objects into Groups objects Knows big and shape or another one group into two groups little hands on the feature (incorrect clock and the Matches animal at times) position of the sounds to animals hands on the clock for specific activities (or numbers)
Skill Progression 1-2 months 2-4 months 4-6 months 6-8 months 8-10 months 10-12 months Classifying Scans contours Scans internal details Explores with hands and fingers to determine properties of objects Uses shape, sound, color, and texture to identify object Uses haptic (touch) exploration to determine size, hardness, shape, temperature, and texture Uses cross-modal (vision, taste, touch, sound, etc.) approaches to determine object’s properties Recognizes sounds of parents’ voices Starts to categorize and distinguish objects with similar appearance Categorizes and distinguishes objects by function or behavior 12-15 months 15-18 months 18-21 months 21-24 months 24-27 months 27-30 months Places objects into categories (blocks, animals, food) Matches objects Makes collections of things that are alike in some way (toys with wheels) Demonstrates knowledge of basic-level categories (plants, animals, people) Beginning to think about how things in the world are alike (rocks, trees, flowers, etc.) Thinks many things are alive that are not, but beginning to understand alive and not alive Selects, discriminates, compares and sorts by color and shape or another feature (incorrect at times) Knows body parts Matches familiar objects (picks out socks from shirts) Compares and matches form, size, color Knows clothing for different occasions Names at least one color Sorts objects into one group Groups objects into two groups Knows big and little hands on the clock and the position of the hands on the clock for specific activities (or numbers) Matches animal sounds to animals
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