5 years

At 5 years children can usually…

• follow three part instructions (e.g. ‘put on your shoes, get your backpack and line up outside’)
• understand time related words (e.g. ‘before’, ‘after’, ‘now’ and ‘later’)
• start thinking about the meaning of words when learning
• understand instructions without stopping to listen
• begin to recognise some letters, sounds and numbers
• use well formed sentences to be understood by most people
• take turns in increasingly longer conversations
• tell simple, short stories with beginning, middle and end
• use past and future verbs correctly (e.g. ‘went’, ‘will go’)
• use most speech sounds, but still may have difficulties with ‘s’, ‘r’, ‘l’ and ‘th’.

Speech Pathology Australia. (2019) Communication Milestones. [online] Available https://www.speechpathologyaustralia.org.au [Accessed 29th July 2019]

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