GOLD®
Objectives and Dimensions (WaKIDS)
Social–Emotional
1. Regulates own emotions and behaviors
- Manages feelings
- Follows limits and expectations
- Takes care of own needs appropriately
2. Establishes and sustains positive relationships
3. Participates cooperatively and constructively in
group situations
- Balances needs and rights of self and others
- Solves social problems
Physical
4. Demonstrates traveling skills
5. Demonstrates balancing skills
7. Demonstrates fine-motor strength and coordination
- Uses fingers and hands
- Uses writing and drawing tools
Language
8. Listens to and understands increasingly
complex language
- Comprehends language
- Follows directions
9. Uses language to express thoughts and needs
10. Uses appropriate conversational and other
communication skills
Cognitive
11. Demonstrates positive approaches to learning
- Attends and engages
- Persists
- Solves problems
12. Remembers and connects experiences
13. Uses classification skills
14. Uses symbols and images to represent something
not present
Literacy
15. Demonstrates phonological awareness
- Notices and discriminates rhyme
- Notices and discriminates smaller and smaller
units of sound
16. Demonstrates knowledge of the alphabet
- Identifies and names letters
- Uses letter–sound knowledge
17. Demonstrates knowledge of print and its uses
18. Comprehends and responds to books and
other texts
- Uses emergent reading skills
19. Demonstrates emergent writing skills
Mathematics
20. Uses number concepts and operations
- Counts
- Quantifies
- Connects numerals with their quantities
21. Explores and describes spatial relationships
and shapes
Note: These 20 objectives are a subset of the 38 objectives for development
and learning appearing in Teaching Strategies GOLD®
Objectives for
Development & Learning, Birth Through Kindergarten, © 2010 by Teaching
Strategies, LLC, Bethesda, MD. The number associated with the objective
corresponds with the GOLD®
objective; numbers are missing when the
associated GOLD®
objective is not part of WaKIDS