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Preschool Math Skills

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Rote Counting

Does not yet count or displays rote phrase counting (1,2, 3)

Counts but not in order

Sometimes can counts 1-3

Sometimes can count 1-5

Consistently counts 1-5

Consistently counts past 10 in correct order.

One-to-one

Does not yet count

Touch counts with physical or demonstrative prompts, but does not touch each object

Touch counts independently but is inaccurate

Touch counts up to 3 objects

Touch counts up to 5 objects

Child can count 10 or more objects.

Give Objects

Does not yet give.

Gives one, gives more

Gives one more, gives all

Gives two

Gives 3

Gives 4 or 5

Classification

Identifies objects. Does not yet classify

Matches object to object

Matches picture to object

Matches by one attribute when given limited choices

Matches by 2 attributes when given choices

Matches by 2 or more attributes without choices (e.g. these are the big yellow triangles, those are the small green squares)

Color Identification

Does not yet identify colors in any way

Receptively identifies 2 colors when presented with 2 colors

Receptively identifies 2 -4 colors when given lots of choices

Sometimes is able to receptively identify 6 colors,

Expressively can identify 2 colors

Receptively identifies 8 or more colors

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expressively identifies 6 colors

Expressively identifies 8 colors in different ways with the task presented in different ways. (e.g. find something blue in the room)

Shape Identification

Does not yet identify shapes in any way

Receptively identifies 2 shapes when presented with 2 shapes

Receptively identifies 2 -4 shapes when given lots of choices

Sometimes is able to receptively identify 4 shapes,

Expressively can identify 2 shapes

Receptively identifies 6 or more shapes,

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expressively identifies 4 shapes

Expressively identifies 6 shapes in different ways when the task is presented in different ways. (e.g. find the heart in this picture)