Languge Development Flashcards
Coo
3 months
Smiles at people
3 months
Recognize your voice
3 months
Cries change for different needs
3 months
Vocalizes preasure and displeasure sounds differently
3 months
Babble and repeat sounds
6 months
Babble
6 months
Giggle and laughs
6 months
Makes gurgling sounds
6 months
Use own voice to express pleasure/displeasure
6 months
Notice and recognizes sounds
6 months
Imitate speech sounds
9 months
Imitate non-speech sounds
9 months
Imitate actions and gestures
9 months
Looks at objects when someone is talking about them
9 months
Recognizes own name
9 months
Babbles longer string of sounds
9 months
1-2 words
1 y/o
Uses signs or gestures
1 y/o
2-word Phrases
2 y/o
Uses gesture during pretend play
2 y/o
3-word phrases
3 y/o
Able to use some grammatical markers
3 y/o
Use other pronouns (i.e. I, it, me)
3 y/o
Uses 4 or more words
4 y/o
Uses present progressive, plural nouns, possessives, past tense verbs, 3rd singular verbs
4 y/o
4-5 words utterances
5 y/o
Grammatically correct sentences
5 y/o
Uses 5 words or longer in a sentence
6 y/o
Repeats sentences up to 9 words length
6 y/o
Uses of -er suffix
8 y/o
Increased proficiency in grammar
8 y/o
Uses passive sentences
9 y/o
Complexity of subordination increases
10 y/o
Adjectival and adverbial phrases increases
10 y/o
Because and when predominate sentences
12 y/o
If and then used frequently
12 y/o
Use of instrumental nonreversible passive sentences
12 y/o
2-6 expressive vocabulary
1 y/o
Says first words
1 y/o
Few familiar vocabulary
1 y/o
Recognizes words for common items
1 y/o
50 words of expressive vocabulary
18 months
Repeats words overheard in a conversation
18 months
Makes animal sounds
2 y/o
Protests with ‘no’
2 y/o
Spatial directions
2 y/o
200-300 words of expressive vocabulary
2 y/o
Understands pronouns
3 y/o
Uses plurals
3 y/o
Identifies colors
4 y/o
Groups objects
4 y/o
Expresses ideas/feelings rather than just talking about the world around them
4 y/o
Vocabulary of 2,200-2,500 words
5 y/o
Vocabulary of 2600-7000 words
6 y/o
Understands comparative and superlative adjectives
6 y/o
Undestand time concepts
6 y/o
Understand different, nearest, through, thin, whole
6 y/o
Identifies positional concepts (i.e. first, middle, last)
6 y/o
Understad adverbs of likelihood (possibly, probably, definitely)
9 y/o
Uses ‘much’ for plural mass nouns
10 y/o
Consistently correct comprehension of ‘because’ sentences
10 y/o
Uses more advanced auxillary verbs (might,could, should)
10 y/o
50,000 words vocabulary
11 y/o
Multiple word meanings acquired
11 y/o
Elements of conventional adult definition acquired
11 y/o
Full understanding of if, so, and because
12 y/o
Full understanding of most connectives
13 y/o
Answers simple questions non-verbally
1 y/o
Understands simple quiestions
18 mos
Uses intonation to ask yes/no questions
2 y/o
Uses some WH-questions
2 y/o
Asks more WH- questions (who, what, where, why)
3 y/o
Understands and asks how and why questions
4 y/o
Asks a variety of questions
5 y/o
Able to answer questions in school to further learning
5 y/o
Responds correctly to more types of sentences but still may be confused at times by more complex sentences
7 y/o
Comprehends words, requests, instructions, simple phrases
1 y/o
Follows simple commands
18 mos
Points to (something) familiar
18 mos
Points to pictures in a book when you name them
18 mos
Points to familiar body parts when you ask
18 mos
Follows 2-step directions
2 y/o
Follow 2-part directions
3 y/o
Follow 2-step, some 3-step directions
4 y/o
Follows 3-step directions
5 y/o
Move their eyes in the direction of sounds
0-6 mos
Responds to changes in voice tone
0-6 mos
Makes sounds when they are happy or upset
0-6 mos
Recognizes familiar people
0-6 mos
Enjoy looking at self in mirror
0-6 mos
Reaches for something they want
0-6 mos
Smile socially in response to other people
0-6 mos
Responds to own name
6-12 mos
Responds to ‘no’
6-12 mos
Points at things to ask what its called
6-12 mos
Tries to communicate through actions and gestures
6-12 mos
Smile at mirror
6-12 mos
Plays peek-a-boo type games
6-12 mos
Copies simple actions
6-12 mos
Repeats actions that made someone laugh
2 y/o
Plays next to other children
2 y/o
Refers to self by name
2 y/o
Uses social words: hi, bye, thanks
2 y/o
Notices other children and joins them to play
3 y/o
Talks with familiar caregiver for at least 2 back and forth exchanges
3 y/o
Says first name when asked
3 y/o
Can play with 1-2 peers
3 y/o
Understands that others may feel differently
3 y/o
Follows rules and take turns when playing games with other children
5 y/o
Keep a conversation going with more than three back-and-forth exchanges
5 y/o
Respond to “What did you say?”
5 y/o
Talk in different ways, depending on the listener and place (have idea of social rules)
5 y/o
Can discuss their emotions and feelings
5 y/o
Understand that other people may have a belief that differs from the truth
5 y/o
Understand that someone else may feel the same way when experiencing a similar event
5 y/o
Uses threats and promises
6 y/o
Asks for the meanings of words
6 y/o
Likes to complete projects
6 y/o
Makes purchases at store (with adult supervision)
6 y/o
Chooses own friends
6 y/o
Takes more care in communicating with unfamiliar people
6 y/o
Engages in cooperative play, such as making group decisions, assigning roles, and playing fairly
6 y/o
Announces topic shifts
6 y/o
Spells frequently-used words correctly
7 y/o
Begins sentences with capital letters and attempts to use punctuation
7 y/o
Writes a variety of stories, journal entries, or notes
7 y/o
Concrete topics
8 y/o
Takes other intentions into consideration
8 y/o
More polite when talking to people outside of peer group
8 y/o
Biggest change in sustaining conversation
8 y/o
Repetition as the predominant repair strategy
9 y/o
Defines terms, and provides more background
9 y/o
Related turns more likely to be factually related
10 y/o
Genuine metaphoric interpretations
10 y/o
Sustained abstract discussion emerge (i.e. love, kindness)
11 y/o
Narrative Discourse
11 y/o
Likes to chew and pat books
1 y/o
Can focus on large and bright pictures in a book
1 y/o
Shares books with an adult as routine part of life
1 y/o
Recognizes certain books by their covers
2 y/o
Listens to simple stories, songs, and rymes
2 y/o
Turns pages
2 y/o
Ponts to and labels pictures by themself
2 y/o
Pretends to read books
2 y/o
Begins to pay attention to specific print, such as the first letter fo his name
3 y/o
Recognizes logos and other environmental prints
3 y/o
Understands that print carries a message
3 y/o
Identifies some letter and makes letter/sound matches
3 y/o
Participates in rhyming games
3 y/o
Likes to “read” stories to herself and others
3 y/o
Interested in books
4 y/o
Rhyming words
4 y/o
Tells what’s next in a well-known story
4 y/o
Say some words from a song, story, or nursery rhyme
4 y/o
Understands story sequence
4 y/o
Understands the function and purpose of print
4 y/o
Knows many letter names
4 y/o
Uses more letter-like forms than scribbles
4 y/o
Tells a story she heard or made up with at least two events
5 y/o
Answer simple questions about a book or story after you read or tell it to him
5 y/o
Uses or recognizes simple rhymes
5 y/o
Pays attention to 5-10 minute story time activity
5 y/o
Writes some letters in her name
5 y/o
Names some letters when you point to them
5 y/o
Recognizes letter and letter-sound matches
6 y/o
Understands that print direction
6 y/o
Retells simple stories
6 y/o
Begins to write stories with some readable parts with assistance
6 y/o
Tries to spell words when writing
6 y/o
Understands spoken words are made up of sounds
6 y/o
Recognizes some words by sight
6 y/o
“Reads” a few picture books from memory
6 y/o
Prints own first and last name
6 y/o
Has a sight word vocabulary of 100 words
7 y/o
Understands what is read
7 y/o
Creates rhyming words
7 y/o
Reads grade-level material fluently
7 y/o
Expresses ideas through writing
7 y/o
Prints clearly
7 y/o
Graphemic, syllabic, and word knowledge are acquired
8 y/o
Silent independent reading
8 y/o
Use reading texts in different contexts
8 y/o
Focus on comprehension
9 y/o
Scanning rate increses
9 y/o
Grapheme-phoneme rules are learned
10 y/o
Reading stories
10 y/o
Reading to learn new skills
10 y/o
Figurative Language
14 y/o
Academic/ Literate Language
14 y/o
20% of narrative sentence begins ‘and’
14 y/o
5% of written sentences begin with ‘and’
14 y/o
Other conjuctions are more frequently used for clausal conjoining
14 y/o
Multiple prepositional phrases embeded
14 y/o
More advanced conjunctions
14 y/o
Heaps
2 y/o
Sequences
2-3 y/o
Primitives
3-4 y/o
Unfocused Chains
4- 4 1/2 y/o
Focused Chains
5 y/o
True Narratives
6-7 y/o
