SEAL

Stage	Indicators
Stage 0: Emergent Counting	– Cannot count visible items– The child may not know the number words. – The child cannot coordinate number words with items.
Stage 1: Perceptual Counting	– Can count perceived items.– May involve seeing, hearing or feeling items.
Stage 2: Figurative Counting	–  Can count the total of two collections.–  Counts from one
Stage 3: Initial Number Sequence	–  Child uses and understands counting-on rather than counting-from-one.–  Uses counting on to solve addition and missing addend tasks. –  May use count-down-from strategies
Stage 4: Intermediate Number Sequence	The child uses and understands:– count-down-from strategies- count-down-to strategies–  The child can choose the most efficient strategy.
Stage 5:Facile Number Sequence	The child uses a range of non-count by one strategies:–  Compensation –  Using known results –  Adding to ten –  Commutativity –  Subtraction as the inverse of addition –  Awareness of ten as a teen number