Community Assessment 2020-2025

Sacramento Employment and Training Agency 2020-2025
School Readiness – Countywide
HEAD START OUTCOMES
SETA Head Start programs are guided by county-wide School Readiness goals. The School
Readiness goals developed for all children to align with the Head Start Early Learning Framework,
the California Preschool Learning Foundations, and the Desired Results Development Profile
assessment. There are also two additional goals specifically developed for dual language learners.
HEALTH &
PHYSICAL
DEVELOPMENT
SOCIAL/
EMOTIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
APPROACHES TO
LEARNING
LANGUAGE &
LITERACY
DEVELOPMENT
(INCLUDING ELL)
• Exemplify physical health as well as understand and practice safe
and healthy habits.
• Engage in physical activities that demonstrate the control of both
small and large motor skills.
• Demonstrate the necessary skills to have healthy relationships
and interactions with adults and peers.
• Perceive that they are capable of successfully making decisions,
accomplishing tasks and meeting goals.
• Demonstrate a healthy range of emotional expression and learn
positive alternatives to aggressive or isolating behaviors.
• Demonstrate an interest in varied topics and activities, a desire to
learn and creativeness in independent & group learning.
• Demonstrate persistence and attentiveness while engaged in
various activities.
• Use a wide range of media & materials as well as music,
movement, and dramatization to creatively express themselves.
• Exhibit the ability to comprehend understand and use language to
communicate needs and share ideas. Indicate an interest in books,
derive meaning and acquire information from stories and other
texts.
• Demonstrate awareness that language can be broken into words,
syllables and smaller pieces of sound and identify names and
sounds associated with each letter.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the concept of print and early
decoding.
• Display familiarity with writing implements, conventions, and
show emerging communication skills through written
representations, symbols, and letters.
• Dual Language Learners will demonstrate the ability to
understand the English language and speak or use English.
• Dual Language Learners will display understanding and respond
to books, storytelling, and songs presented in English.
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