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Form: 5 years
Masters monophonemic rules for plural morphemes: This means the child can differentiate and correctly use the different sounds for plural words, such as /s/, /z/, and /Iz/. Axl confidently calls his dad’s collection of time tellers “watches” and his mom’s collection of wrist jewelry “bracelets”. -
Form: 5 years, 5 months
Produces some sentences in passive voice: this means the child creates sentence in the form of "Object + Verb + Subject". After finding his sister's birthday cake had been stolen and Grandma's chihuahua looking suspiciously and uncomfortably full and with pink frosting on its nose, Axl told his parents "The cake was eaten by the dog!" -
Content: 5 years, 7 months
"Learns to read" by decoding. When Axl reads at home with his parents, he points out the words like dog, cat, and, bird that he recognizes. -
From: 5 years, 10 months
Can manipulate phonemes in words and blend and segment individual sounds. Axl and his class had a fun time during circle time singing the "Hannah Banana fo fana" song. -
Use: 5 years, 11 months
Uses mostly direct requests. Axl doesn't ask people "if they can help" him, he just asks for what he wants or needs. -
Form: 6 years, 6 months
Begins to use morphology to infer the meanings of new words. Axl wasn't sure what a Calico cat was, but when the vet asked his mom what their other cat was, and his mom said a black cat, he realized Calico was a color. -
Form: 6 years, 11 months
Uses elaborated noun phrases, adverbs, conjunctions, and some mental and linguistic verbs: this means the child uses new words to give more description to their language. The first time Axl told his mom what he wanted on his 3rd birthday cake, he said, "I want cake!" Now, for his 7th birthday he told her, "I want a blue cake with big, scary dinosaurs!" -
Form: 7 years, 2 months
Comprehends conjunctions such as because, so, if , but, or, before, after, and, then. Axl told his sister, "Before I liked blue, but now I like red." -
Form: 7 years, 7 months
Uses adult ordering of adjectives: this means the child now follows the generally accepted organization of adjectives, quantity, quality, size, age, shape, color, proper adjective, and purpose. Axl really enjoys the One-eyed, One-horned, flying purple people eater song -
Content: 7 years, 9 months
Hones decoding skills to read unfamiliar words. Axl saw the word "library" and used the words he already knew to learn the new written version of the word. -
Form: 7 years, 9 months
Can produce all American English sounds and blends. Axl no longer has trouble saying any English sound, and can even say Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. -
Form: 8 years, 1 month
Uses full passives: this means the child has use of all the tenses of passive sentences. Axl told his mom, "My homework was done!" when trying to avoid getting in trouble for getting a low grade in class because his homework was not done. -
Use: 8 years, 2 months
Produces narrative plots containing beginning, end, problem, and resolution. Axl had a fun time telling his 4 year old cousin about the strifes his stuffed toy, Dr. Wildebeest, had to go through to get through medical school and become the best doctor in the whole galaxy. -
Form: 8 years, 9 months
Uses derivational suffixes such as -er, -y, and -ly. Axl likes to tell his friends, "My mom's cookies are yummier than yours."