Scales
The profile comprises 13 scales across the six areas of learning: Personal, social and emotional development
* Dispositions and attitudes
* Social development
* Emotional development Communication, language and literacy
* Language for communication and thinking
* Linking sounds and letters
* Reading
* Writing Mathematical development
* Number as labels and for counting
* Calculating
* Shape, space and measures
Knowledge and understanding of the world
Physical development
Creative development
Points
There are nine points within each assessment scale. Points 1 to 3 describe children who are still progressing towards the early learning goals and are based mainly on the stepping stones. Points 4 to 8 relate to the early learning goals, and point 9 describes a child who is working beyond the level of the early learning goals. To be assessed at point 9, a child must have achieved points 1 to 8.
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