Speech and language skills
- Stories contain complete episodes with internal goals, motivations, and reactions of characters, and multi-episode stories appear.
- Language is used to establish and maintain social status.
- Increased perspective-taking allows for more successful persuasion.
- Provides conversational repairs by defining terms or giving background information.
- Begins to understand jokes and riddles on sound similarities.
- Can perform successfully in simple referential communication tasks.
- School and reading experiences introduce new words not encountered in conversation.
- Pronouns used anaphorically to refer to nouns previously named.
- Word definitions include synonyms and categories.
- Some words understood to have multiple meanings.
- Capacity for production of figurative language increases.
- Literate language syntax needed for academic participation develops.
- Few errors in noun phrases (much bricks) persist.
- Articulation is mostly error-free.
- Some difficulty with complex words may persist.
- Phonological knowledge is used in spelling.
- Sound manipulation in activities such as pig latin is seen.