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Speech and thinking, ages 5–7

Vocabulary, connected storytelling, generalisation and cause-and-effect — what school learning rests on.

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1.Speaks in full phrases rather than single words

2.Gets word endings right: "many chairs", "no pencils"

3.Easily finds the opposite word: tall — short

4.Understands and uses "between", "on the left", "behind", "in front of"

5.Can build a four- or five-sentence story from a picture

6.Retells a familiar story without muddling the order of events

7.Tells you about their day clearly enough that you need not ask what they mean

8.Groups things and names the group in one word: "that’s furniture"

9.Spots the odd one out in a row and explains why it is the odd one

10.Answers "what happens if…" with reasoning rather than "don’t know"

11.Notices nonsense — "in winter the boy went swimming" — and laughs at it

12.Pronounces all the sounds clearly; strangers understand them

13.Hears what sound a word starts with and finds other words with it

14.Claps a short word into syllables

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