"Make Early Learning Standards Come Alive" provides help, support, and explanations of how to make early learning standards come alive in classrooms and programs. Easy-to-read charts show how different states define standards in each of the major content areas and how these standards can be addressed in the classroom. The book discusses how to: (1) Implement standards in ways that are developmentally appropriate and beneficial for children; (2) Develop reasonable and efficient ways to assess children's progress toward the standards; (3) Plan curriculum with specific learning standards in mind in each of the seven major content areas -- communication and literacy, math, science, social studies, social/emotional development, physical development and health, and creative arts; and (4) Be accountable while offering real alternatives to inappropriate testing and unreasonable expectations for outcomes.