SCHOOL AGE COMMUNICATION DEVELOPMENT
Children must be able to draw upon a range of well developed communication skills to maximise their learning opportunities at school.
Ideally, a child entering or currently attending school, should have achieved the following skills:
- Understands and follows long and unfamiliar instructions.
- Forms sentences with correct word use and placement.
- Uses correct pronouns, such as he, she, they, you, me, her, his, theirs, mine, etc.
- Has a large vocabulary of around 10 thousand words.
- Understands similarities and opposites.
- Understands categories and relationships between words.
- Understands and enjoys telling jokes and silly stories.
- Tells long and imaginative stories.
- Listens to and can recount simple stories.
- Makes friends and interacts well with adults and peers.
During their early primary school years, children’s language will continue to develop, including:
- Significant increases in their vocabulary.
- Producing complex sentences with multiple components.
- Using time based words, such as then, before, now, after, when, and while correctly.
- Explaining complex concepts or situations.
- Telling coherent and easy-to-follow stories with a notable sequence from start, to middle, to end.
- Listening to and summarising long stories.
- Becoming aware of and able to use letters and numbers.
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