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At 5 Years #
children can usually… #
understand #
- follow three part instructions
- understand time related words
- start thinking about the meaning of words when learning
- understand instructions without stopping to listen
- begin to recognise some letters, sounds and numbers
speak #
- use well formed sentences to be understood by most people
- take turns in increasingly longer conversations
- tell simple, short stories with a beginning, middle and end
- use past and future verbs correctly
- use most speech sounds but, still may have difficulties with ‘s’, ‘r’, ‘l’ and ‘th’
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