Developmental Charts 5-6 year old and up Hays Flashcards
5 - 6 year old activities to be observed
catch a ball
skips smoothly
copies a + already drawn
tells age
concept of 10
knows right and left hand
draws person with 8 details
describes favorite television program in detail
5-6 year old activities related by parent
does simple chores
goes to school unattended
meets school bus
good motor ability
little awareness of dangers
6-7 year old activities to be observed
copies a triangle
defines words by use (what is an orange? to eat)
knows if morning or afternoon
draws a person with 12 details
reads several 1-syllable printed words
7-8 year old activities to be observed
counts by 2s and 5s
ties shoes
copies a diamond shape
knows what day of the week it is (not date or year)
no evidence of sound substitution in speech
draws a man with 16 details
reads paragraph #1 Durrell:
Muff is a little yellow kitten. She drinks milk. She sleeps on a chair. She does not like to get wet.
adds and subtracts 1-digit numbers
8-9 year old activities to be observed
defines words better than by use. (what is an orange? a fruit)
can give an appropriate answer to the following:
what is the thing for you to do if ….
- you have broken something that belongs to someone else?
- a playmate hits you without meaning to
Reads paragraph #2 Durrell:
A little black dog ran away from home. He played with two big dogs. They ran away from him. It began to rain. He went under a tree. He wanted to go home, but he did not know the way. He saw a boy he knew. the boy took him home.
Corresponding arithmetic:
Can add and subtract 2-digit numbers.
Is learning to borrow and carry in addition and subtraction
9-10 year old activities to be observed
knows the month, day and year
names months in order (15 s, 1 error)
Makes a sentence with these 3 words in it (1 or 2. can use words orally in proper context)
1) work … money … men
2) boy … river … ball
Reads paragraph #3 in Durrell:
Six boys put up a tent by the side of a river. They took things to eat with them. When the sun went down, they went into the tent to sleep. In the night, a cow came and began to eat grass around the tent. The boys were afraid. They though it was a bear.
Should comprehend and answer the question: what was the cow doing?
Corresponding arithmetic:
add and subtract 3 to 4 digit numbers.
learning simple multiplication
10-12 year old activities to be observed
Should read and comprehend paragraph #5 Durell:
In 1807, Robert Fulton took the first long trip in a steamboat. He went one hundred and fifty miles up the Hudson River. The boat went five miles an hour. This was faster than a steamboat had ever gone before. Crowds gathered on both banks of the river to see this new kind of boat. They were afraid that its noise and splashing would drive away all the fish.
Answer: what river was the trip made on?
Ask to write the sentence: The fishermen did not like the boat.
Corresponding arithmetic:
Should do multiplication and simple division
12-15 year old activities to be observed
Reads paragraph #7 in Durrell:
Golf originated in Holland as a game played on ice. The game in its present form first appeared in Scotland. It because unusually popular and kings found it so enjoyable that it was known as the royal game. James IV, however, thought that people neglected their work to indulge in this fascinating sport so that it was forbidden in 1457. James relented when he found how attractive the game was, and it immediately regained its former popularity. Golf spread gradually to other countries, being introduced in America in 1890. It has grown in favor until there is hardly a town that does not boast of a private or public course.
Ask to write a sentence: Golf originated in Holland as a game played on ice.
Answers questions:
Why was gold forbidden by James IV?
Why did he change his mind?
Corresponding arithmetic:
reduce fractions to lowest forms.
does long division, adds and subtracts fractions.
