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