The North Carolina Early Learning and Development Progressions: Birth to Five are an expansion of the North Carolina Foundations for Early Learning and Development (2013). The Learning Progressions break down the sequence in which children learn skills for emotional and social, health and physical, language and communication, and cognitive development. Skill descriptions at two-, three-, or six-month intervals allow teachers and families to observe and document a child’s current level of development and to track incremental changes over time. Observation guidelines provide situations for observation of skills, strategies for eliciting the skill, if needed, what observed behavior indicates achievement of the skill, and routines-based intervention or embedded instruction.
- North Carolina Early Learning and Development Progressions: Birth to Five Online Tool
- North Carolina Early Learning and Development Progressions: Birth to Five Printable Version – Expands the NC Foundations for Early Learning and Development goals into observable behaviors at two-, three-, and six-month intervals. (Please note that the printed version is more than 800 pages.)
- NC Early Learning and Development Progressions at a Glance – Printable listing of the developmental progressions without observation guidelines.
- Instructions for navigating the NC Early Learning and Development Progressions: Birth to Five can be found here.