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Maine's Early Learning Developmental Standards (MELDS) download-2 -…

- - - - Expresses feelings through facial expressions, body movements, and gestures
      - Quiets or stops crying when held or talked to by a familiar adult
      - Attends when others show emotions
      - May cry when other children cry
    - - Expresses many emotions
      - Changes expression based on familiar adults reactions
      - Looks and seeks comfort from familiar adults
      - Responds to others emotional expressions
      - Awaits caregivers to meet needs
    - - Self-conscious emotions appear
      - Shows understanding of some emotional expressions
      - Expresses empathy
      - Begins to express feelings of anger and frustration
  - - - Looks at books, pretending to read
      - Turns pages
      - Recognizes signs and symbols in their environment
      - Attention increases when being read to
    - - Looks at Books
      - Touches books and puts them in mouth
      - Moves in response to music
      - Attends to words, songs, and rhymes
      - Gesture in response to adults talking to them about photos of people they know
    - - Participates when books are read
      - Makes motions for familiar games, songs, and finger plays.
      - Makes marks on paper
- - - - 3 Years
        
        Includes other children in pretend play
        
        Seeks out particular peer
        
        Imitates adult actives
        
        Uses adults as a resource
        
        Follows routine when prompted
      - End of Kindergarten
        
        Respects differences
        
        Responds appropriately to unwanted situations
        
        Uses and gives feedback
        
        Good social skills
      - 5 Years
        
        Checks before going away from rules and routines
        
        Works independently
        
        Increasing ability to compromise during play
        
        Participates in group routines
        
        Notices absences
        
        Seeks adult when needed for emotional support
        
        Invents activities
    - - 3 Years
        
        Shows concern
        
        Wants to experience world on own terms
        
        Becomes attached to people
        
        Developing ability to make decisions and choices on their own
        
        Shows impulse control
      - 5 Years
        
        Makes choices among peers
        
        Follows basic responsibilities
        
        Can wait their turn
        
        Listens to directions
        
        Demonstrates understanding that actions have consequences
        
        Is happy when they are successful, wants others to be too.
        
        Is aware of certain abilities and characteristics
      - End of Kindergarten
        
        Demonstrates behaviors that lead to success in schoolwork
        
        Getting along with others
        
        Follows procedures for safe behaviors
        
        Cooperation skills -- taking turns and sharing
        
        Demonstrates healthy wants to express theirselves
        
        Manages conflict
  - - - Looks at books and pretends to read
      - Turns pages at the right time
      - Shows increased attention span when being read to
      - Recognizes signs and symbols in their environment
      - Memorizes and repeats songs, books, and rhymes
    - - Tracks Print
      - Recognizes print is something you read and has a meaning
      - Beings to demonstrate that words are separated by spaces
      - Recognizes and names 15-20 uppercase letters and 15-20 lowercase letters
      - Imitates reading
      - Begins to link a sound to corresponding printed letter
      - Recognizes and produces rhyming words
      - Recognizes names and other common print around the classroom
    - - Recognizes that spoken and written words were connected
      - Recognizes all upper and lowercase letters
      - Follows words on a page
      - Produces rhyming words
      - Substitutes new sounds to make new words
      - Blends onsets and rhymes
      - Knows and applies grade level phonics skills
      - Reads high frequency words by sight
      - Reads emergent reader texts