Speech and language skills
- Expository texts used in school sponsored writing
- Most academic information is presented in expository formats
- Understands jokes and riddles based on deep structure ambiguity
- Abstract, dictionary definitions given for words
- Use of adverbial conjuncts increases
- Can explain meanings of proverbs in context
- Use of perfect aspect (have/had + verb) increases
- Syntax used in writing more complex than that used in speech
- Knowledge of stress rules (yellowjacket vs. yellow jacket) is acquired