Speech and Language Pathologist Erica Sander from @sanderspeechsolutions provided us with so much information about speech and language milestones during our #letsgetreadyforkinder week!
Find out what to expect from your soon to be kindergartener below:
Articulation
- speech should be 95-100% intelligible meaning the message is understood by the listener 95-100% of the time
- majority of speech and sounds have been acquired in all word positions (p, b, m, n ,t, d, k, g, f, s, y, h, sh, v)
- may continue to produce later developing sounds with difficulty (l, r, sh, th, ch, z, s)
Expressive
- use complex sentence structures, can connect two different ideas in one sentence
- use simple past tense verbs -ed
- produce more adjectives to describe what they observe
- include pronouns (I, me, my , myself, they, themselves)
- produce sequencing in their stories, they are more organized and cohesive
Pragmatic
- demonstrates cooperative play skills with peers
- play simple games and follow rules (Simon says, BINGO, Go Fish, board games)
- participates in 4-5 conversational turns with a partner and will initiate and stay on topic
- use language to discuss emotions
- learning how to repair communication breakdowns and can rephrase or revise their message
Receptive
- follow multi-step directions
- understands comparative vocabulary (big, bigger, biggest) and location vocabulary (between, below, on top)
- identify similarities and differences
- recognizing simple rhyming words
- understand simple concepts of time (yesterday, tomorrow)
- answers simple concrete questions (yes/no, who, what, where)
Activities & Resources
Click on the pictures to find out more about the rhyming activities!
