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The California Preschool
Curriculum Framework, Volume 1
Book Walk
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What’s in Volume 1?
• Social-Emotional
Development
• Language and
Literacy
• English-Language
Development
• Mathematics
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Let’s Explore the Framework
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A Message from the State
Superintendent of Public Instruction
(p. v) Highlights
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What Does the Framework Do?
“Created as a companion to the California
Preschool Learning Foundations, Volume 1, this
framework presents strategies and information to
enrich learning and development opportunities for
all of California’s preschool children.” p. v
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Acknowledgments (p. vii)
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Project leaders
Principal writers
Community college faculty advisers
Universal design advisers
Project staff and advisers from the WestEd Center for
Child and Family Studies
Staff from the California Department of Education
Early childhood education stakeholder organizations
Participants in the formative and review focus groups
Participants in the Web posting process
Participants in the public hearing process
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Chapter One:
Introduction (p. 1) Highlights
Overarching
Principles
Daily
Schedule
p. 16-19
California’s
Children p.
3-5
CurriculumPlanning
Process
Curriculum
Planning p.
13-16
Chapter 1
Organization
Universal
Design for
Learning p.
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Englishlanguage
Development in
All Domains p.
10-13
Chapter Two:
Early Learning and Development
System (p. 29) Highlights
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Chapters 3-6:
The Learning Domains Highlights
• Social-Emotional
Development p. 37
• Language and
Literacy p. 97
• English-Language
Development p. 177
• Mathematics p. 231
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Organization of the Domain
Chapters
What’s First???
• Guiding Principles
• Environments and
Materials
• Summary of the
Strands and
Substrands
Strands and Substrands
• Place a sticky tab on the first page of each
strand.
• Highlight the title of each substrand.
Hint: Notice the strand
and substrand on the
bottom of each page.
Vignettes
• Each chapter has numerous vignettes to
illustrate typical classroom scenarios.
• Locate and highlight two vignettes in the
assigned chapter.
Hint: Vignettes are in italicized
typestyle and are identified in the
column to the left with the word
VIGNETTE in bold.
Vignettes
• Read through one of the vignettes identified.
• Highlight the teachable moment and/or planning
learning opportunities associated with that
vignette.
Hints:
• Each vignette has at least one
teachable moment and/or planning
learning opportunity.
• Where included, they will be
identified in the column to the left
of the vignette.
Interactions and Strategies
Following each vignette identified, highlight the
paragraph that includes the words “interactions
and strategies.”
Hint: Interactions and
strategies can be found in the
paragraph immediately
following each vignette.
Research Highlights
Find and highlight one research highlight in the
chapter.
Hint: Research highlights are in
shaded boxes set off from the
rest of the text and headed with
the words “Research Highlight.”
End of Each Domain
Find and tab these three features found at the
end of each domain.
•Bringing in All Together
•Engaging Families
•Questions for Reflection
Finally…
Each chapter ends with:
• Teacher Resources
• References
• Endnotes
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Don’t Overlook…
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Appendices
Appendix A. California Early
Learning and Development
System (p. 303)
Appendix B. Reflections on
Research: Phonological
Awareness (p. 304)
Appendix C. Reflections on
Research: Alphabetics and
Word/Print Recognition (p.
313)
Appendix D. Resources for
Teachers of Children with
Disabilities or Other Special
Needs (p. 319)
Glossary
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Thank You!