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Early Childhood/Early Learning

Developmental Standards

The Tennessee Early Childhood Education Early Learning Developmental Standards, or TN-ELDS, were developed to provide documentation of the continuum of developmental milestones from birth through age 5 based on the research about the processes, sequences and long term consequences of early learning and development.

Revised TN-ELDS for four year-olds (adopted by State Board of Education in August 2012)

Revised Four Year-Old TN-ELDS download pdf file

 

All files are in PDF format

  1. Table of Contents
  2. Section 1: Speech and Language Development
  3. Section 2: Early Literacy
  4. Section 3: Math and Science
  5. Section 4: Social Studies
  6. Section 5: Creative Arts
  7. Section 6: Social and Emotional Development
  8. Section 7: Physical Development
  9. TN-ELDS Acknowledgements