## North Carolina Early Learning and Development Progressions: Birth to Five

NC Foundations for Early Learning: Language Development and Communication (LDC)

Click on a skills progression below for information about skills appropriate to each available age range or click here to return to the main page.

- Learning to Communicate

- LDC 1: Children understand communications from others.

- A. Understand communication from others

- LDC 2: Children participate in conversations with peers and adults in one-on-one, small, and larger group interactions.

- A. Participate in conversations with peers and adults

- LDC 3: Children ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.

- A. Answers questions
- B. Asks questions

- LDC 4: Children speak audibly and express thoughts, and feelings, and ideas clearly.

- A. Articulation/ sound production
- B. Possible developmentally appropriate sound errors
- C. Language production

- LDC 5: Children describe familiar people, places, things, and events.

- A. Use of narrative skills to describe

- LDC 6: Children use most grammatical constructions of their home language well.

- A. Use most grammatical constructions of home language well

- LDC 7: Children respond to and use a growing vocabulary.

- A. Respond to and use a growing vocabulary

- Foundations for Reading

- LDC 8: Children develop interest in books and motivation to read.

- A. Develop interest in books and motivation to read

- LDC 9: Children comprehend and use information presented in books and other print media.

- A. Comprehend and use information presented in books and other print media

- LDC 10: Children develop book knowledge and print awareness.

- A. Develop book knowledge and print awareness

- LDC 11: Children develop phonological awareness.

- A. Develop phonological awareness

- LDC 12: Children begin to develop knowledge of the alphabet and the alphabetic principle.

- A. Develop knowledge of the alphabet and the alphabetic principle

- Foundations for Writing

- LDC 13: Children use writing and other symbols to record information and communicate for a variety of purposes.

- A. Use writing and other symbols to record information and communicate for a variety of purposes

- LDC 14: Children use knowledge of letters in attempts to write.

- A. Use knowledge of letters in attempts to write

- LDC 15: Children use writing skills and writing conventions.

- A. Use writing skills and writing conventions

North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, 2015

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