The VPK Learning Center Activities included with this guide are aligned with the Language, Communication and Emergent Literacy Domain within the Florida Early Learning and Developmental Standards for Four-Year-Olds (2011). Although the goal was not to create an activity to represent each and every standard and benchmark, most standards are represented in the 60 activities, some in multiple activities, as evidenced in the Crosswalk. These standards and associated benchmarks were themselves developed based on the best available research evidence about the important skills that preschool children should know and be able to demonstrate to be ready for kindergarten by the end of the preschool period. The primary purpose of the VPK Learning Center Activities is to provide teachers with a systematic, structured, and easy to implement set of activities to support their instruction of very important emergent reading, emergent writing, and oral language activities. These activities are designed to support teachers' goals of providing intentional instruction to all children within their classroom.