The Florida Partnership for School Readiness, created as a result of the Florida School Readiness Act in 1999, is charged with adopting a system for measuring school readiness and developing school readiness performance standards and outcome measures. This guide presents school readiness performance standards for 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds and is the result of a workgroup and advisory committee formed with representatives of district school systems, child care and health care providers, state agency partners, and state and national experts in child development, special needs, and measurement and assessment. The guide's prologue offers directions for using the standards most effectively. The remainder of the guide details the standards, organized by area of child development: (1) physical health; (2) approaches to learning; (3) social and emotional development; (4) language and communication; (5) cognitive development and general knowledge; and (6) motor development. Within each area of development, standards are organized by childs chronological age with cross-references to Head Start standards and two sets of Florida state standards. Accompanying each standard are examples illustrating some of the many ways that growth, development, and learning can be assured in the context of the learning experiences characterizing a stimulating learning environment. The guide concludes with a list of the board members of the Florida Partnership for School Readiness. (KB)