Communication Milestones-5 years

At 5 years, children can usually...

Understand

  • Follow 3 part instructions (e.g: ‘put on your shoes, get your backpack and line up outside)
  • Understand time related words (e.g: ‘before’, ‘after’, ‘now’ and ‘later’)
  • Start thinking about the meaning of words when learning
  • Understand instructions without stopping to listen
  • begin to recognise some letters, sounds and numbers

Speak

  • Use well formed sentences to be understood by most people
  • Tke turns in increasingly longer conversations
  • Tell simple, short stories with beginning, middle and end
  • Use past and future verbs correctly (e.g: ‘went’, ‘will go’)
  • Use most speech sounds, but still may have difficulties with ‘s’, ‘r’, ‘l’ and ‘th’

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 (SPA, 2020)

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