Memory & Recall

Encoding, storing, and retrieving information across short-term and long-term timeframes.

Examples & Achievements

  • Remembers events from yesterday and describes them
  • Recalls the names of classmates and teachers
  • Remembers the sequence of a familiar routine
  • Recites familiar songs, poems, or stories from memory
  • Recalls where they left a toy or object

How to Measure

  • Retells 3+ key events from a story read earlier that day
  • Recalls 4+ items from a list of 6 after a brief delay
  • Recites a 4-line poem or song from memory
  • Can describe what they did yesterday with 3+ accurate details
Sources (3)
  • CDC/AAP
  • ASQ-3
  • Teaching Strategies GOLD