Speech and language skills

  • Understands left and right
  • Uses increasingly more complex descriptions
  • Engages in conversation
  • Has a receptive vocabulary of approximately 20,000 words
  • Uses a sentence length of approximately 6 words
  • Understands most concepts of time
  • Counts to 100 by rote
  • Uses most morphologic markers appropriately
  • Uses passive voice appropriately

Motor skills

  • Improved coordination and balance for climbing, bike riding, and other sports activities
  • Shows reduced interest in writing and drawing
  • Draws pictures that are not proportional
  • Uses adult-like writing, but it is slow and labored
  • Runs lightly on toes
  • Walks on a balance beam
  • Cuts out simple shapes
  • Colors within the lines
  • Indicates well-established right or left handedness
  • Dresses self completely
  • Brushes teeth without assistance