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Foundations: Early Learning Standards for North Carolina Preschoolers and Strategies for Guiding Their Success

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• Part 1 -- Letter from the superintendent, acknowledgements, etc.
• Part 2 -- Introduction
• Part 3 -- Guiding Principles
• Part 4 -- Commonly Asked Questions
• Part 5 -- Comparing Foundations and the NC Standard Course of Study for Kindergarten
• Part 6 -- Active Learning: A day in the life of a preschool class
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• Part 7 -- Using the Widely Held Expectations
• Part 8 -- Approaches to Learning
• Part 9 -- Emotional and Social Development
• Part 10 -- Health and Physical Development
• Part 11 -- Language Development and Communication
• Part 12 -- Cognitive Development
• Part 13 -- Selected Bibliography
• Strategies for Approaches to Learning
• Strategies for Emotional and Social Development
• Strategies for Health and Physical Development
• Strategies for Language Development and Communication
• Strategies for Cognitive Development