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.
- LDC 2: Children participate in conversations with peers and adults in one-on-one, small, and larger group interactions.
- LDC 3: Children ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
- LDC 4: Children speak audibly and express thoughts, and feelings, and ideas clearly.
- LDC 5: Children describe familiar people, places, things, and events.
- LDC 6: Children use most grammatical constructions of their home language well.
- LDC 7: Children respond to and use a growing vocabulary.
- Foundations for Reading
- LDC 8: Children develop interest in books and motivation to read.
- LDC 9: Children comprehend and use information presented in books and other print media.
- LDC 10: Children develop book knowledge and print awareness.
- LDC 11: Children develop phonological awareness.
- LDC 12: Children begin to 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.
- LDC 14: Children use knowledge of letters in attempts to write.
- LDC 15: Children use writing skills and writing conventions.
North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, 2015