High Scope Key Indicators Approaches to Learning Language, Literacy, & Communication Social and Emotional Development Physical Development, Health, & Well-Being Arts and Sciences 1. Approaches to Learning Making and expressing choices, plans, and decisions Solving problems encountered in play 2. Language, Literacy, and Communication  Talking with others about personally meaningful experiences Describing objects, events, and relations Having fun with language: listening to stories and poems, making up stories and rhymes Writing in various ways: drawing, scribbling, letter-like forms, invented spelling, conventional forms Reading in various ways: reading storybooks, signs and symbols, one's own writing Dictating stories