Nevada Infant and Toddler Early Learning Guidelines Contents ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 7 History of the Nevada Early Learning Guidelines ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 8 Nevada’s Early Childhood Comprehensive System ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 9 Nevada Early Childhood System ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 10 Professional Development System .................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 11 Culture, Diversity and Language ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 12 Early Learning Guidelines & Pre-Kindergarten Standards Alignment Crosswalk .............................................................................................................................................. 13 Birth to Four Months ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 14 Social & Emotional Development: ................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 14 Experiencing, expressing, & managing emotions; developing relationships ............................................................................................................................................ 14 Language Development: ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 15 Communicating & Understanding Spoken Language ................................................................................................................................................................................ 15 Pre-Reading and Pre-writing ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 15 Cognitive Development ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 15 Discovering the world ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 15 Physical Development ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 16 Coordinate Movements ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 16 Social & Emotional Development .................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 16 Developing a Sense of Self and Others ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 16 Language Development ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 18 Understand and Communicate .................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 18 Pre-Reading and Pre-Writing ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 18 Cognitive Development ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 18 Discover and Learn .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 18 Physical Development ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 19 Coordinate Movements ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 19 Five to Eight Months .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 20 Personal and Social Development ................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 20 Developing a Sense of Self and Others ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 20 Language Development ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 21 Understand and Communicate .................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 21 Pre-Reading and Pre-Writing ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 21 Cognitive Development ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 22 Discover and Learn .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 22 Physical Development ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 23 Coordinate Movements ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 23 Nine to Twelve Months ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 24 Social & Emotional Development .................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 24 Developing a Sense of Self and Others .....................................................................................................................................................................................................