Speech and language skills
- Stories include complex, embedded, and interactive episodes.
- Understands jokes and riddles based on lexical ambiguity.
- Vocabulary used in school texts is more abstract and specific than used in conversation.
- Students are expected to acquire new information from written texts.
- Can explain relationships between meanings of multiple-meaning words.
- Begin using adverbial conjuncts (4% of utterances contain them).
- Most common idioms understood.
- Syntax used in school texts is more complex than that used in oral language.
- Use of word order variations increases in writing (“around the house we put a fence”).
- Morphophonological knowledge develops and is used in speckling
- Metacognitive skills emerge.