N.M. Admin. Code § 6.30.5.11 - PROGRAM ELEMENT INSTRUCTION

A. Public schools providing full-day kindergarten programs, utilizing state funding, will include:

(1) a comprehensive research-based early literacy program that:

(a) identifies the concepts and skills necessary to establish the foundation of success in early reading;

(b) includes instructional strategies that ensure children learn identified concepts and skills;

(c) includes developmentally appropriate early literacy assessment; and

(d) includes key early literacy skills instruction, e.g. language development, vocabulary development, auditory comprehension, appreciation of stories and books, writing concepts of print, alphabet knowledge, letter sounds, phonemic awareness and beginning phonics;

(2) child-centered programs based on developmentally appropriate teaching practices that:

(a) support the growth of social and emotional competence; and

(b) are culturally and linguistically appropriate;

(3) a sequential comprehensive, developmentally appropriate early mathematics program that:

(a) identifies the concepts and skills necessary to establish the foundation of success in early mathematics;

(b) includes instructional strategies that ensure children learn identified concepts and skills; and

(c) includes developmentally appropriate early mathematics assessment.

B. Schools must continue to provide a sequential comprehensive, developmentally appropriate early literacy program in the first second and third grades following kindergarten. The program must include program elements, assessments, and professional development as addressed in the rule.

Notes

N.M. Admin. Code § 6.30.5.11

6.30.5.11 NMAC - N, 11-14-2000; A, 11-13-2009