Four to Five Years How Does Your Child Hear and Talk? | Birth to
One Year | One to Two Years | Two to Three Years | Three to Four
Years | Four to Five Years | Learning Two Languages | What
should I do if I think my child has a problem? What should my
child be able to do? |Hearing and Understanding - Pays attention
to a short story and answers simple questions about them. -
Hears and understands most of what is said at home and in
school. - Uses sentences that give lots of details ("The biggest
peach is mine"). - Tells stories that stick to topic. -
Communicates easily with other children and adults. - Says most
sounds correctly except a few like l, s, r, v, z, ch, sh, th. -
Says rhyming words. - Names some letters and numbers. - Uses the
same grammar as the rest of the family. What can I do to help? -
Talk about spatial relationships (first, middle, and last; right
and left) and opposites (up and down, big and little). - Offer a
description or clues and have your child identify what you are
describing. - Work