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Use: 36 months
Begins to engage in longer dialogues: Axl can now have conversations with his family without losing attention for a good 7 minutes. -
Form: 36 months
Begins to develop shallow phonological awareness abilities: This means the child is beginning to understand the sound structure of words. Axl can identify rhymes. -
Content: 37 months
Uses pronouns. When Axl talks about his favorite TV characters, he often calls the group “them”. -
Form: 37 months
Uses four to five words in sentences. Axl says sentences like “I really like blue.” -
Form: 50 months
Combines four to seven words in sentences. Axl is now bringing together longer sentences when he talks to people. -
Content: 39 months
Understands some relational terms: this means the child understands related but opposite terms, such as hard and soft. Axl will often turn the lamp in his room on and off very quickly while saying, “Light! Dark! Light Dark!” -
Use: 39 months
Begins to use primitive narratives: Axl now tells short stories about characters, himself, and his pets. -
Form: 39 months
Uses compound sentences with “and”. Axl often says sentences like, “I like dogs and trains. -
Content: 52 months
Uses “what do, what does, what did” questions. Axl likes asking his family what they did during the day. -
Form: 41 months
Continues to refine articulatory skills. Axl is working hard on making his consonants sound like the adult language models in his life. -
Form: 42 months
Uses adverbs of time: this means the child uses words that modify verbs to tell people when something happened. Axl likes to tell people he wakes up “early early” every day. -
Use: 42 months
Makes conversational repairs: This means the child attempts to fix misunderstandings in the conversation. When Axl has trouble pronouncing words in a way that is understandable, he often tries using related words to make his point apparent. -
Form: 44 months
Has mastered most consonants. Axl is able to use the majority of consonants in English. -
Content: 45 months
Uses syntactic information to narrow the possible meanings of new words: this means the child uses the part of speech (noun, verb, etc) to determine what a word they don’t know means. Axl wasn’t sure what scissors were, but the shiny things on the table were the only ones he didn’t recognize so he figured it out. -
Form: 45 months
Uses past tense consistently. Axl likes to talk about the things he did during the week at his preschool. -
Content: 47 months
Overextends new words on the basis of function. Axl’s dad told him that he uses a hammer to fix things, so next time his dad was fixing something, he called the screwdriver a hammer. -
Form: 47 months
Decreases use of phonological processes. As Axl is mastering consonants, he is no longer fronting his consonants or reducing consonant clusters. -
Use: 59 months
7Uses narrative with a sequence of events but no main character or theme. Axl can tell stories but he can also simply say what happened during the day. -
Use: 48 months
Constructs true narratives: Axl can now tell actual stories about himself and other characters. -
Form: 52 months
Has mastered almost all consonants however they may not be mastered in all contexts. Axl can say /c/ when in the initial phoneme position, however he has trouble when it’s in the final position. -
Use: 52 months
Uses indirect requests: this means the child essentially asks if someone is able to help them. instead of saying "Please get", Axl will now ask "Can you get this for me?" -
Form: 56 months
Knows the letters that make up their own name. Axl can recognize the letters A, X, and L. -
Content: 58 months
Uses deictic terms: this means the child uses theoretical terms such as this, that, here, and there. Axl’s mom asked where his blanket was, and he pointed to the couch saying, “There it is!”