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.