New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 6 - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION
Chapter 30 - EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS - GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
Part 5 - OPTIONAL FULL-DAY KINDERGARTEN PROGRAM
Section 6.30.5.11 - PROGRAM ELEMENT INSTRUCTION
Universal Citation: 6 NM Admin Code 6.30.5.11
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024
A. Public schools providing full-day kindergarten programs, utilizing state funding, will include:
(1) a comprehensive research-based early
literacy program that:
(a) identifies the
concepts and skills necessary to establish the foundation of success in early
reading;
(b) includes instructional
strategies that ensure children learn identified concepts and skills;
(c) includes developmentally appropriate
early literacy assessment; and
(d)
includes key early literacy skills instruction, e.g. language development,
vocabulary development, auditory comprehension, appreciation of stories and
books, writing concepts of print, alphabet knowledge, letter sounds, phonemic
awareness and beginning phonics;
(2) child-centered programs based on
developmentally appropriate teaching practices that:
(a) support the growth of social and
emotional competence; and
(b) are
culturally and linguistically appropriate;
(3) a sequential comprehensive,
developmentally appropriate early mathematics program that:
(a) identifies the concepts and skills
necessary to establish the foundation of success in early
mathematics;
(b) includes
instructional strategies that ensure children learn identified concepts and
skills; and
(c) includes
developmentally appropriate early mathematics assessment.
B. Schools must continue to provide a sequential comprehensive, developmentally appropriate early literacy program in the first second and third grades following kindergarten. The program must include program elements, assessments, and professional development as addressed in the rule.
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