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This document is a child development checklist that assesses various developmental milestones across several domains, including self-identity, emotional development, social play, prosocial behavior, gross and fine motor skills, cognitive development, language, pre-reading skills, art skills, and imagination. The checklist contains over 100 individual items that are rated based on evidence and observation dates to track a child's progress in meeting developmental benchmarks over time.

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Childskillschecklist

This document is a child development checklist that assesses various developmental milestones across several domains, including self-identity, emotional development, social play, prosocial behavior, gross and fine motor skills, cognitive development, language, pre-reading skills, art skills, and imagination. The checklist contains over 100 individual items that are rated based on evidence and observation dates to track a child's progress in meeting developmental benchmarks over time.

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Child Development Checklist

(From Observing Development of the Young Child by Janice J. Beaty)

Childs Name: Observer:

DOB: Dates:

Program:

Directions:
Put a for items you see the child perform regularly. Put N for items where there is no opportunity
to observe. Leave all others blank.

Item Evidence Date


1. Self-Identity
___ Separates from parents
without difficulty
___ Does not cling to classroom
staff excessively
___ Makes eye contact with
adults
___ Makes activity choices
without teachers help
___ Seeks other children to play
with
___ Play roles confidently in
dramatic play
___ Stands up for own rights

___ Displays enthusiasm about


doing things for self
2. Emotional Development
___ Allow self to be comforted
during stressful time
___ Eats, sleeps, toilets without
fuss away from home
___ Handles sudden
changes/startling situations with
control
___ Can express anger in
words rather than actions
___ Does not withdraw from
others excessively
___ Shows people affection,
connection, love
___ Shows interest/attention in
classroom activities
___ Smiles seems happy much
of the time
3. Social Play
___ Spends time watching
others play
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Item Evidence Date
___ Plays by self with own
toys/materials
___ Plays parallel to others with
similar toys/materials
___ Makes friends with other
children
___ Gains access to play in a
positive manner
___ Maintains role in ongoing
play in a positive manner
___ Resolves play conflicts in a
positive manner
4. Prosocial Behavior
___ Shows concern for
someone in distress
___ Can tell how another fells
during conflict
___ Shares something with
another
___ Gives something to another
___ Takes turns without a fuss

___ Helps another to a task

___ Helps (care for) another is


need
5. Gross Motor
Development
___ Walks down steps
alternating feet
___ Runs with control over
speed and direction
___ Jumps up and lands on two
feet
___ Hops on one foot
___ Throws, catches and kicks

___ Climbs up and down


climbing equipment with ease
___ Moves legs and feet in
rhythm to beat
___ Moves arms and hands in
rhythm to beat
6. Fine Motor Development
___ Show hand preference
(which is ____________)
___ Turns with hand easily
(knobs, lids, eggbeaters)
___ Pours liquid into glass
without spilling
___ Unfastens/fastens zippers,
buttons, Velcro tabs
___ Picks up and inserts
objects with ease
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Item Evidence Date
___ Uses drawing/writing tools
with control
___ Pounds in nails, uses clay
with control
7. Cognitive Development:
Classification, Number,
Time & Space
___ Identities objects by shape
___ Identifies objects by color

___ Identifies objects by size

___ Sorts objects by likeness

___ Puts events in sequence

___ Counts how many are


present
___ Knows what happens today
___ Can build a block enclosure

8. Spoken Language
___ Listens but does not speak
___ Gives single word answers

___ Gives short-phrase


responses
___ Does chanting and singing
___ Takes part in conversations
___ Speaks in expanded
sentences
___ Asks questions

___ Can tell a story

9. Prewriting & Prereading


Skills
___ Pretends to write with
pictures and scribbles
___ Makes horizontal lines of
scribbles
___ Includes letter like forms

___ Makes some letters, prints


name or initial
___ Holds book right-side up;
turns pages left to right
___ Pretends to read using
pictures to tell the story
___ Retells stories from books
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Item Evidence Date
with increasing accuracy
___ Show awareness that print
in books tells the story
10. Art Skills
___ Makes random marks on
paper
___ Makes controlled scribbles

___ Makes basic shapes

___ Combines circles/squares


with crossed lines
___ Makes suns
___ Draws person as sun-face
with arms and legs
___ Draws animals, trees,
flowers
___ Draws objects together in a
picture
11. Imagination
___ Pretends an action without
taking role
___ Assigns roles to takes
assigned roles
___ Takes on characteristics
and actions of role
___ Needs particular props to
do pretend play
___ Can pretend with imaginary
objects
___ Uses Language for creating
and sustaining plot
___ Uses exciting, danger
packed themes
___ Uses elaborate themes,
ideas, details

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