The older toddler learning guidelines for language and communication development are:

• LC31. Continues to understand many more words than they can speak.
• LC32. Understands more abstract and complex statements and requests that refer to positions in space, reference to time, ideas, feelings and the future.
• LC36. Communicates clearly enough to be understood by familiar and unfamiliar listeners.
• LC39. Participates in conversations.
• LC41. Develops an awareness of word sounds and rhythms of language.
• LC43. Moves from telegraphic speech to grammatical sentences.
• LC45. Increases knowledge about books and how they are typically read.
• LC47. Demonstrates knowledge that a symbol can represent something else.
• LC49. Understands writing is a way of communicating.
• LC51. Demonstrates competency in home language while acquiring proficiency in English.

The older toddler learning guidelines for physical health and wellbeing are:

• PW30. Moves body, arms and legs with coordination.
• PW31. Demonstrates large muscle balance, stability, control and coordination.
• PW32. Moves body with purpose to achieve a goal.
• PW35. Coordinates eye and hand movements.
• PW36. Controls small muscles in hand.
• PW53. Will show increased visual ability and perception.
• PW54. Will show increased integration of sensory stimulation.
• PW44. Participates in physical care routines.
• PW45. Develops self-help skills.
• PW46. Follows familiar sleep routines
• PW47. Lifestyle is characterized by active, physical play.
• PW48. Begins to practice healthy and safe behaviors.
• PW49. Demonstrates the stamina and energy to participate in daily activities.
• PW50. Engages in a variety of physical activities.

The older toddler learning guidelines for Social, Emotional, and Cultural Development are:

• SED4. Demonstrates increasing comfort with most adults.
• SED5. Demonstrates and labels relationships of others such as “Mommy, Daddy and me are a family. You are my teacher- I love all of you.”
• SED6. Follows the directions of adults.
• SED7 Seeks adults for information and support in understanding things.
• SED10. Becomes attached to people around their own age.
• SED11. Is responsive to other children.
• SED12. Begins to develop increased “cooperative” play with peers’.
• SED16. Begins to label their feelings.
• SED17. Begins to demonstrate need to complete tasks on his/her own.
• SED20. Is refining their ability to self- regulate.
• SED21. Is developing problem-solving skills when challenged.
• SED25. Identifies themselves and familiar people.
• SED26. Develops a sense of community
• SED27. Begins to recognize physical, ethnic, and cultural differences between themselves and others.
• CD75. Begins to explore and become aware of the immediate community.

The older toddler learning guidelines for Development Through the Expressive Arts are:

• CD68. Responds to and participates in music and dance with increasing skill in rhythm and movement.
• CD69. Creatively explores and experiments using a variety of sensory materials and art mediums.
• CD70. Expands on pretend play and recreates familiar settings through the imaginative use of props and clothing.

The older toddler learning guidelines for Development of Scientific Knowledge and Dispositions are:

• CD45. The older toddler improves memory for details; looks for favorite objects.
• CD48. The older toddler demonstrates an awareness of the effects of certain actions.
• CD49. The older toddler begins to investigate the reasons why something unexpected happens.
• CD62. The older toddler asks questions and develops inquiry skills.
• CD63. The older toddler uses simple tools to continue exploration.
• CD64. The older toddler observes and identifies living things and begins to identify their basic needs.

The older toddler learning guidelines for Development of the Mathematical Mind are:

• CD53. The older toddler can choose a solution to a problem from more than one possibility.
• CD57. The older toddler matches and sorts according to color, shape or size.
• CD58. The older toddler shows an understanding of number concepts, one, two, more and less.
• CD59. The older toddler recognizes and creates simple patterns.

From:

Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care. (2010, November). Massachusetts early learning guidelines for infants and toddlers.  Boston, MA:  Author. Available at: http://www.eec.state.ma.us/docs1/Workforce_Dev/Layout.pdf