Language Development in Children 5-6 Years What To Expect
Language development in children 5-6 years: At this age it's important to determine if your child has school readiness skills.
Some of these include a basic knowledge of the alphabet, counting, colors, shapes, and general concepts.
Your child gains emergent literacy skills are gained through many hours of reading together (discussed in further detail below).
These skills are the highest predictor of later school success.
Children also develop phonological awareness skills which include abilities such as rhyming and the awareness of letters and their corresponding sounds.
The better the phonological awareness skills your child has, the better reader and speller they will be.
Understands reading is left to right, top to bottom, front to back
Understands spoken words have speech sounds in them
Recognizes words by sight (about 25 words)
“Reads” a few picture books from memory
Imitates reading by looking at pictures
Knows alphabet and numbers
Writing
Prints his/her own first and last name
Draws a picture that tells a story, labels and writes about a picture
Write upper and lower case letters legibly
Social/Play
Starts and maintains conversations
Uses many types of expression to express needs, wants, and ask questions or give information
Hints requests that do not mention the intention in the request (“those smell good!”)
Ability to address specific requests for clarification increases (when others say they don’t understand, the child is better at changing his/her words and explaining better what he/she meant)
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