- Regulates emotions and behaviors
- Establishes and sustains positive relationships
- Participates cooperatively and constructively in group situations
- Listens and understands increasingly complex language
- Uses language to express thoughts and needs
- Uses appropriate conversational and other communications skills
- Engages in sociodramatic play
- Demonstrates phonological awareness: rhyming and alliteration
- Demonstrates knowledge of the alphabet
- Demonstrates knowledge of print and its uses
- Comprehends and responds to books and other text
- Explores drama through actions and language
