Kentucky Early Childhood Standards (Ages Birth-4)
Approaches to Learning
Approaches to Learning Standard 1: Maintains focus and persists at challenging tasks.
Benchmark 1.1: Maintains focus and sustains attention.
- IT-ATL 3: Child maintains focus and sustains attention with support.
Benchmark 2.2: Pretends and uses imagination in play.
- IT-ATL 9: Child shows imagination in play and interactions with others.
- IT-SE 5: Child imitates and engages in play with other children.
- IT-C 13: Child uses pretend play to increase understanding of culture, environment, and experiences.
Benchmark 1.4: Demonstrates interest and engages in pretend play and other behaviors associated with drama.
Communication
Communication Standard 3: Demonstrates interest and engages in early literacy activities.
Benchmark 3.1: Demonstrates interest and engagement in print literacy materials.
- IT-LC 10: Child handles books and relates them to their stories or information.
- IT-LC 11: Child recognizes pictures and some symbols, signs, or words.
- IT-LC 12: Child comprehends meaning from pictures and stories
- IT-LC 13: Child attends to, repeats, and uses some rhymes, phrases, or refrains from stories or songs.
Social Emotional Development
Social Emotional Development Standard 1: Demonstrates trust and engages in social relationships.
Benchmark 1.2: Demonstrates social relationships and positive interactions with adults.
