Pays attention to an object or person for at least one minute
Pays attention to an object or person for at least one minute
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What mastery looks like
Shows no attempt to pays attention to an object or person for at least one minute
- Shows no attempt to pays attention to an object or person for at least one minute
- No observable behavior matching this milestone
Occasionally or inconsistently pays attention to an object or person for at least one minute
- Occasionally or inconsistently pays attention to an object or person for at least one minute
- Requires significant support or prompting
Frequently pays attention to an object or person for at least one minute with some support
- Frequently pays attention to an object or person for at least one minute with some support
- Shows the behavior in familiar contexts
Consistently pays attention to an object or person for at least one minute across contexts
- Consistently pays attention to an object or person for at least one minute across contexts
- Performs independently without prompting
Readily pays attention to an object or person for at least one minute and extends the behavior
- Readily pays attention to an object or person for at least one minute and extends the behavior
- Shows flexibility and adaptation in approach
Related activities
No activities directly mapped to this yet. These are age and domain-appropriate alternatives.
Cause and Effect Discovery
Parent helps baby discover that actions produce results — kicking a mobile, shaking a rattle, batting a dangling toy. The agent coaches the parent to observe whether baby connects their own movements to outcomes, building the foundational academic skill of causal reasoning.
Sort It
Parent and toddler sort objects by one attribute — colour or size. The agent coaches the parent to observe the child's ability to identify a shared property, group items accordingly, and explain their sorting logic.
Letter Safari
Parent and child hunt for letters in the environment — on signs, books, packaging, clothing labels. The agent coaches the parent to observe the child's letter recognition, interest in print, and understanding that letters carry meaning.
Little Scientist
Parent observes baby's systematic exploration of objects — turning, mouthing, banging, dropping, comparing. The agent coaches the parent to recognise these behaviours as scientific inquiry: experimentation, observation, and hypothesis-testing in miniature.
Sound Garden
Parent plays different gentle sounds for baby — crinkling paper, tapping a glass, humming, shaking a jar of rice — and the agent coaches the parent to observe baby's reactions to different timbres, volumes, and rhythms. This activity explores early aesthetic sensitivity through auditory experience.
First Marks
Parent offers crayons or finger paint and the agent coaches the parent to observe toddler's first mark-making — scribbles, dots, lines — as expressions of early aesthetic creativity and motor control.
Formal assessments
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Standardised assessment view
1 instrument measure this construct. The construct page shows how each one approaches it and at what age range.
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