Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 28 - EDUCATION
Part CXXXVI - Bulletin 136-Louisiana Early Learning and Development Standards for Children Birth to Five Years
Chapter 1 - General Provisions
Section CXXXVI-103 - Definitions

Alphabet Awareness-knowledge of letters of the alphabet coupled with the understanding that the alphabet represents the sounds of spoken language and the correspondence of spoken sounds to written language.

Approaches to Learning-behaviors and attitudes that indicate how children approach tasks and activities to learn and include characteristics such as initiative and curiosity; attention, engagement and persistence; and problem solving, which help strengthen and facilitate learning across other school readiness domains.

Attention, Engagement, and Persistence- the capacity to pay attention and engage in learning activities for short periods of time so that children can complete short-term, concrete tasks and activities, which then progresses so that children can concentrate for longer periods of time, persist in activities of interest, and set goals.

Emergent Writing-young children's first attempts at the writing process.

Expressive Communication-the ability to communicate our thoughts and feelings through words, gestures, signs, and/or symbols.

Fine Motor Development-skill development involving the smaller muscles of the hand.

Gross Motor Development-Skill development involving the large muscles in the arms, legs and torso.

Initiative and Curiosity-personal experiences with and the openness and curiosity about new discoveries that begin with interest in the world around them and the initiative to gain new knowledge by taste, touch, smell, sight, sound, and physical actions, then develops into interaction with unfamiliar objects and materials, seeking new ways for using items in the environment, and learning new information in a variety of ways in order to add to a growing knowledge of the world.

Phonological Awareness-the awareness of and ability to work with sounds in spoken language.

Print Concepts-the understanding of the nature and uses of print.

Problem Solving-noticing how actions affect objects and cause things to happen, to find solutions, and to apply similar strategies again in the future, including the skills of explaining how problems are solved, observation, reasoning, and prediction.

Receptive Communication-The ability to understand words and language.

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 17:6(A)(10), R.S. 17:407.22, R.S. 17:407.23.