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DRDP (2015) – An Early Childhood Developmental Continuum
Rating Booklet
Preschool Fundamental View
For use with preschool-age children with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs)

Linked List of Measures

SED 1: Identity of Self in Relation to Others | SED 2: Social and Emotional Understanding | SED 3: Relationships and Social Interactions with Familiar Adults | SED 4: Relationships and Social Interactions with Peers | SED 5: Symbolic and Sociodramatic Play

ELD 1: Comprehension of English (Receptive English) | ELD 2: Self-Expression in English (Expressive English) | ELD 3: Understanding and Response to English Literacy Activities | ELD 4: Symbol, Letter, and Print Knowledge in English

Developmental Domain: ATL–REG – Approaches to Learning–Self–Regulation

ATL-REG 1: Attention Maintenance

Responding		Exploring		Building			Integrating
Earlier □	Later □	Earlier □	Later □	Earlier □	Middle	Later	Earlier
Attends or responds briefly to people,things, or sounds	Shifts attention frequently from one person or thing to another	Maintains attention, on own or with adult support, during brief activities	Maintains attention, with adult support, during activities that last for extended periods of time	Maintains attention on own during activities that last for extended periods of time	There are no later levels for this measure
□ Child is emerging to the next developmental level □ Unable to rate this measure due to extended absence

ATL-REG 2: Self-Comforting

Responding		Exploring		Building			Integrating
Earlier □	Later □	Earlier □	Later □	Earlier □	Middle	Later	Earlier
Responds to internal or external stimulation in basic ways	Engages in behaviors that have previously worked to soothe self	Comforts self by seeking a familiar adult or a special thing	Comforts self in different ways, based on the situation	Anticipates need for comfort and prepares self by asking questions, getting a special thing, or in other ways	There are no later levels for this measure
□ Child is emerging to the next developmental level □ Unable to rate this measure due to extended absence

ATL-REG 3: Imitation

Responding		Exploring		Building			Integrating
Earlier □	Later □	Earlier □	Later □	Earlier □	Middle	Later	Earlier
Responds to facial expressions or vocalizations in basic ways	Imitates approximations of single simple actions or sounds when interacting with others	Imitates actions, or Repeats familiar words or gestures by others when interacting with them	Imitates a few actions, or Repeats familiar actions or words experienced at an earlier time	Imitates multiple steps of othersâ€™ actions, or Repeats phrases, experienced at an earlier time	There are no later levels for this measure
□ Child is emerging to the next developmental level □ Unable to rate this measure due to extended absence

ATL-REG 4: Curiosity and Initiative in Learning

Responding		Exploring		Building			Integrating
Earlier □	Later □	Earlier □	Later □	Earlier □	Middle □	Later □	Earlier □
Responds to people, things, or sounds	Notices new or unexpected characteristics or actions of people or things	Explores people or things in the immediate environment	Explores new ways to use familiar things, including simple trial and error	Explores through simple observations, or manipulations, or asking simple questions	Explores by engaging in specific observations, manipulations, or by asking specific questions	Carries out simple investigations using familiar strategies, tools, or sources of information	Carries out multi-step investigations, using a variety of strategies, tools, or sources of information
□ Child is emerging to the next developmental level □ Unable to rate this measure due to extended absence

ATL-REG 5: Self-Control of Feelings and Behavior

Responding		Exploring		Building			Integrating
Earlier □	Later □	Earlier □	Later □	Earlier □	Middle □	Later □	Earlier □
Calms when comforted by an adult	Seeks a familiar adult when distressed, and responds when physically comforted by a familiar adult	Calms self when a familiar adult initiates contact, moves close, or offers a special thing	Relies on communication or guidance from a familiar adult to regulate emotional or behavioral reactions in moderately stressful situations	Demonstrates capacity to regulate emotional or behavioral reactions in some moderately stressful situations, occasionally needing adult support	Expresses strong feelings through constructive forms of communication, seeking the assistance of familiar adults when needed	Uses simple strategies (e.g., leaving a difficult situation, offering an alternative toy to a friend) to regulate own feelings or behaviors	Uses socially appropriate strategies (e.g., negotiation, compromise, verbal reminders to self) to regulate own feelings or behaviors
□ Child is emerging to the next developmental level □ Unable to rate this measure due to extended absence

ATL-REG 6: Engagement and Persistence

Responding		Exploring		Building			Integrating
Earlier □	Later □	Earlier □	Later □	Earlier □	Middle □	Later □	Earlier □
	There are no earlier levels for this measure	Participates in a simple activity briefly	Selects activities, but switches quickly from one to another, even with adult support to help focus on one activity	Continues self-selected activities with adult support, even though interest briefly shifts to other activities	Continues self-selected activities on own, seeking adult support to work through challenges	Works through challenges on own while engaged in self-selected activities	Returns to activities, including challenging ones, on multiple occasions to practice a skill or to complete the activity
□ Child is not yet at the earliest developmental level on this measure □ Child is emerging to the next developmental level □ Unable to rate this measure due to extended absence

ATL-REG 7: Shared Use of Space and Materials

Responding		Exploring		Building			Integrating
Earlier □	Later □	Earlier □	Later □	Earlier □	Middle □	Later □	Earlier □
	There are no earlier levels for this measure	Demonstrates preferences for a few specific toys or materials	Takes and plays with materials of interest, even when they are being used by another child	Shows awareness that other children might want to use materials, by taking action to control the materials	Maintains control of some preferred materials, allowing others to use the rest, but will need adult support to share preferred materials with other children	Follows expectations or procedures for sharing, most of the time, without adult prompting	Offers to share space or materials with others in the absence of explicit expectations for sharing
□ Child is not yet at the earliest developmental level on this measure □ Child is emerging to the next developmental level □ Unable to rate this measure due to extended absence

Developmental Domain: SED — Social and Emotional Development

SED 1: Identity of Self in Relation to Others

Responding		Exploring		Building			Integrating
Earlier □	Later □	Earlier □	Later □	Earlier □	Middle □	Later □	Earlier □
Responds in basic ways to others	Uses senses to explore self and others	Recognizes self and familiar people	Communicates own name and names of familiar people (e.g., "dada," "mama," "grandma," or sibling's name)	Expresses simple ideas about self and connection to others	Describes self or others based on physical characteristics	Describes own preferences or feelings; and Describes the feelings or desires of family members, friends, or other familiar people	Compares own preferences or feelings to those of others
□ Child is emerging to the next developmental level □ Unable to rate this measure due to extended absence

SED 2: Social and Emotional Understanding

Responding		Exploring		Building			Integrating
Earlier □	Later □	Earlier □	Later □	Earlier □	Middle □	Later □	Earlier □
Responds to faces, voices, or actions of other people	Shows awareness of what to expect from familiar people by responding to or anticipating their actions	Adjusts behavior in response to emotional expressions of familiar people, especially in novel or uncertain situations	Adjusts behavior in response to emotional expressions of people who are less familiar	Identifies own or others' feelings	Communicates, with adult assistance, about feelings that caused own behavior or others' behavior	Communicates ideas about why one has a feeling or what will happen as a result of a feeling	Communicates ideas about how own or another's personality affects how one thinks, feels, and acts
□ Child is emerging to the next developmental level □ Unable to rate this measure due to extended absence

SED 3: Relationships and Social Interactions with Familiar Adults

Responding		Exploring		Building			Integrating
Earlier □	Later □	Earlier □	Later □	Earlier □	Middle □	Later □	Earlier □
Responds to faces, voices, or actions of familiar people	Shows a preference for familiar adults and tries to interact with them	Interacts in simple ways with familiar adults and tries to maintain the interactions	Initiates activities with familiar adults; and Seeks out assistance or support from familiar adults	Engages in extended interactions with familiar adults in a variety of situations (e.g., sharing ideas or experiences, solving simple problems)	Seeks a familiar adult's ideas or explanations about events or experiences that are interesting to the child	Takes initiative in creating cooperative activities with a familiar adult	Works cooperatively with familiar adults, over sustained periods, to plan and carry out activities or to solve problems
□ Child is emerging to the next developmental level □ Unable to rate this measure due to extended absence

SED 4: Relationships and Social Interactions with Peers

Responding		Exploring		Building			Integrating
Earlier □	Later □	Earlier □	Later □	Earlier □	Middle □	Later □	Earlier □
Shows awareness of other people, including children	Shows interest in other children	Plays alongside other children, rarely interacting with them	Interacts in simple ways with familiar peers as they play side by side	Participates in brief episodes of cooperative play with one or two peers, especially those with whom child regularly plays	Participates in extended episodes of cooperative play (including pretend play) with one or two friends	Initiates sustained episodes of cooperative play (including pretend play), particularly with friends	Organizes or participates in planning cooperative play activities with several peers, particularly with friends
□ Child is emerging to the next developmental level □ Unable to rate this measure due to extended absence

SED 5: Symbolic and Sociodramatic Play

Responding		Exploring		Building			Integrating
Earlier □	Later □	Earlier □	Later □	Earlier □	Middle □	Later □	Earlier □
Responds to people or objects in basic ways	Explores people and objects in a variety of ways	Uses or combines objects in functional or meaningful ways	Pretends that an object represents another object or serves a different purpose	Engages in pretend play sequences	Engages in pretend play with others around a shared idea	Engages in roles in pretend-play sequences with others	Engages in pretend play sequences with others by organizing and negotiating roles or rules around a shared elaborated idea
□ Child is emerging to the next developmental level □ Unable to rate this measure due to extended absence

Developmental Domain: LLD — Language and Literacy Development

LLD 1: Understanding of Language (Receptive)

Responding		Exploring		Building			Integrating
Earlier □	Later □	Earlier □	Middle □	Later □	Earlier □	Middle □	Later □	Earlier □
Responds to voices, sounds, gestures, or facial expressions in basic ways	Responds to voices, gestures, or facial expressions in a variety of ways (e.g., gaze aversion, vocalization, movements)	Recognizes a few frequently used words or gestures in familiar situations	Shows understanding of a variety of single words	Shows understanding of frequently used simple phrases or sentences	Shows understanding of a wide variety of phrases or sentences	Shows understanding of some complex vocabulary, phrases, or sentences as used in conversations, stories, or learning activities	Shows understanding of language that refers to abstract concepts, including imaginary events	Shows understanding of a series of complex statements that explain how or why things happen
□ Child is emerging to the next developmental level □ Unable to rate this measure due to extended absence

LLD 2: Responsiveness to Language

Responding		Exploring		Building			Integrating
Earlier □	Later □	Earlier □	Later □	Earlier □	Middle □	Later □	Earlier □
Responds to voices, sounds, gestures, or facial expressions in basic ways	Responds to voices, gestures, or facial expressions in a variety of ways (e.g., eye gaze, gaze aversion, vocalization, movements)	Responds to a few frequently used words or gestures in familiar situations	Responds to simple comments that relate to a present situation	Responds to one-step requests or questions that involve a familiar activity or routine	Carries out a one-step request that relates to a new or an unfamiliar activity or situation	Carries out multi-step requests that involve a familiar activity or situation	Carries out multi-step requests that involve a new or unfamiliar activity or situation
□ Child is emerging to the next developmental level □ Unable to rate this measure due to extended absence

LLD 3: Communication and Use of Language (Expressive)

Responding		Exploring			Building			Integrating
Earlier □	Later □	Earlier □	Middle □	Later □	Earlier □	Middle □	Later □	Earlier □
Makes sounds spontaneously	Uses sounds, gestures, or facial expressions to communicate	Uses a few "first words," word-like sounds, or gestures to communicate	Uses a variety of single words to communicate	Uses two words together to communicate	Uses short phrases or sentences of more than two words to communicate	Uses short sentences that contain nouns, verbs, and other words, such as adjectives and recently encountered vocabulary, to communicate	Uses phrases and sentences with a variety of word forms, including past tense, future tense, plurals, pronouns, or possessives, to communicate, sometimes with errors	Combines phrases and sentences with a variety of word forms to communicate ideas or to describe people, objects, or events
□ Child is emerging to the next developmental level □ Unable to rate this measure due to extended absence

LLD 4: Reciprocal Communication and Conversation

Responding		Exploring			Building			Integrating
Earlier □	Later □	Earlier □	Middle □	Later □	Earlier □	Middle □	Later □	Earlier □
Responds to sounds or movements of others in basic ways	Responds to or seeks contact with familiar adults, using vocalizations, gestures, or facial expressions during interactions	Engages in brief back-and-forth communication with a familiar adult, using word approximations, vocalizations, gestures, or facial expressions	Engages in brief back-and-forth communication with a familiar adult, using simple words or conventional gestures to communicate meaning	Engages in brief back-and-forth communication, combining words to communicate meaning	Engages in brief back-and-forth communication, using short phrases and sentences	Engages in brief conversations with a shared focus	Engages in conversations with a shared focus, contributing clarifying comments or building on the other person's ideas	Engages in extended focused conversations that involve reasoning, predicting, problem solving, or understanding ideas
□ Child is emerging to the next developmental level □ Unable to rate this measure due to extended absence

LLD 5: Interest in Literacy

Responding		Exploring		Building			Integrating
Earlier □	Later □	Earlier □	Later □	Earlier □	Middle □	Later □	Earlier □
Attends or responds to people or things in basic ways	Plays with books; and Responds to other literacy activities	Attends briefly to a familiar adult reading books, singing songs, or saying rhymes	Looks at books on own briefly, or Chooses to join reading, singing, or rhyming activities led by an adult	Looks at books page by page, or Participates, from beginning to end, in listening to stories, singing songs, or playing rhyming games, when supported by an adult	Initiates looking at and talking about books, listening to and talking about stories, singing songs, or playing rhyming games	Extends literacy activities by retelling a story, drawing pictures about a story, or acting out a story	Initiates literacy activities that relate to classroom experiences as well as to own experiences or interests
□ Child is emerging to the next developmental level □ Unable to rate this measure due to extended absence

LLD 6: Comprehension of Age-Appropriate Text

Responding		Exploring			Building			Integrating
Earlier □	Later □	Earlier □	Middle □	Later □	Earlier □	Middle □	Later □	Earlier □
		There are no earlier levels for this measure	Shows interest when attending to books, pictures, or print materials, with an adult	Provides simple one- or two-word responses to questions when attending to books or other materials that include text, with an adult	Makes comments or asks questions about text presented in books or the environment	Demonstrates knowledge of main characters, events, or ideas in familiar narrative or informational text	Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of details in narrative or informational text that includes order of events or cause and effect	Demonstrates understanding of both narrative and informational text by summarizing, comparing, or making inferences about people, objects, or events
□ Child is not yet at the earliest developmental level on this measure □ Child is emerging to the next developmental level □ Unable to rate this measure due to extended absence

LLD 7: Concepts About Print

Responding		Exploring			Building			Integrating
Earlier □	Later □	Earlier □	Middle □	Later □	Earlier □	Middle □	Later □	Earlier □
		There are no earlier levels for this measure	Explores books	Engages with print materials while being read to by an adult	Demonstrates awareness of the way books are handled	Demonstrates understanding that print and symbols carry meaning	Demonstrates understanding of how to follow print on a page of text	Demonstrates understanding that print is organized into units, such as letters, sounds, and words
□ Child is not yet at the earliest developmental level on this measure □ Child is emerging to the next developmental level □ Unable to rate this measure due to extended absence

LLD 8: Phonological Awareness

Responding		Exploring			Building			Integrating
Earlier □	Later □	Earlier □	Middle □	Later □	Earlier □	Middle □	Later □	Earlier □
		There are no earlier levels for this measure	Attends to sounds or elements of language	Demonstrates awareness of variations in sounds	Engages actively in play with sounds in words or rhymes, or Sings simple songs, or Repeats simple nursery rhymes	Demonstrates awareness of larger units of language (e.g., words, syllables)	Blends larger units of language (e.g., compound words and syllables) with or without the support of pictures or objects; and Segments larger units of language (e.g., compound words and syllables) with or without the support of pictures or objects	Blends smaller units of language (e.g., onsets and rimes), with or without the support of pictures or objects; and Segments smaller units of language (e.g., onsets and rimes), with or without the support of pictures or objects
□ Child is not yet at the earliest developmental level on this measure □ Child is emerging to the next developmental level □ Unable to rate this measure due to extended absence

LLD 9: Letter and Word Knowledge

Responding		Exploring			Building			Integrating
Earlier □	Later □	Earlier □	Middle □	Later □	Earlier □	Middle □	Later □	Earlier □
		There are no earlier levels for this measure	Demonstrates awareness that pictures represent people or things	Demonstrates awareness of a few common simple symbols in the environment	Demonstrates awareness of a few letters in the environment	Identifies some letters by name	Identifies ten or more letters (not necessarily at the same time); and Shows understanding that letters make up words	Identifies most uppercase letters; and Identifies most lowercase letters; and Shows understanding to a sound in words
□ Child is not yet at the earliest developmental level on this measure □ Child is emerging to the next developmental level □ Unable to rate this measure due to extended absence

LLD 10: Emergent Writing

Responding		Exploring			Building			Integrating
Earlier □	Later □	Earlier □	Middle □	Later □	Earlier □	Middle □	Later □	Earlier □
		There are no earlier levels for this measure	Makes marks on paper	Makes scribble marks	Makes scribble marks or simple drawings that represent people, things, or events	Makes marks to represent own name or words	Uses letters or clearly recognizable approximations of letters to write own name	Writes several words or a few simple phrases, or clearly recognizable approximations
□ Child is not yet at the earliest developmental level on this measure □ Child is emerging to the next developmental level □ Unable to rate this measure due to extended absence

Developmental Domain: ELD — English—Language Development

ELD 1: Comprehension of English (Receptive English)

Discovering Language □	Discovering English □	Exploring English □	Developing English □	Building English □	Integrating English □
Recognizes a few frequently used words or gestures in the home language and culture in familiar situations	Shows understanding of words and phrases in conversations, stories, and interactions in home language (may show little understanding of common words and phrases in English)	Attends to interactions in English and sometimes participates in activities conducted in English; and Shows understanding of a few common English words in familiar contexts or routines	Shows understanding of some common words and phrases in English during interactions and activities conducted in English, occasionally with support of home language, nonverbal cues, or both	Shows understanding of many words, phrases, and concepts in English during interactions and activities conducted in English, occasionally with support of home language, nonverbal cues, or both	Shows understanding of most information and concepts communicated in English for both instructional and social purposes
□ Child is emerging to the next developmental level □ Unable to rate this measure due to extended absence

ELD 2: Self-Expression in English (Expressive English)

Discovering Language □	Discovering English □	Exploring English □	Developing English □