SKILL PROGRESSIONS FOR LDC Goal 6: Children use most grammatical constructions of their home language well. Skill Progression: Use most grammatical constructions of home language well Subdomain: Learning to Communicate LDC Goal 6: Children use most grammatical constructions of their home language well. Skill Progression 1-2 months 2-4 months 4-6 months 6-8 months 8-10 months 10-12 months Use most No observable skills grammatical 12-15 months 15-18 months 18-21 months 21-24 months 24-27 months 27-30 months constructions No observable Produces Omits Produces Produces regular Produces have of home skills primarily nouns grammatical pronouns possessives and do as auxiliary language well markers, such as (e.g., mommy’s) verbs (“Do you “a” or “the” emerge like apples?”) Produces Produces Understands Combines Produces infinitive holophrastic utterances; and uses: 2-3 words verb phrases with speech (i.e., one produces Agents hafta, wanna, word may mean telegraphic (e.g., mama) gonna. (e.g., many things) speech, using only Actions (e.g., run) “I wanna go.”) key words (e.g., Objects (e.g., cup) Produces and Produces the “Car go”) Recurrence between nouns following (e.g., more) (e.g., “I want juice morphemes: Cessation and cookies.”) Present (e.g., stop) progressive verb + Disappearance -ing (adds “ing” (e.g., all gone) to words) Prepositions (in, on) Regular plurals (e.g. dolls, horses)
SKILL PROGRESSIONS FOR LDC Goal 6: Children use most grammatical constructions of their home language well. Skill Progression: Use most grammatical constructions of home language well Subdomain: Learning to Communicate LDC Goal 6: Children use most grammatical constructions of their home language well. Skill Progression 1-2 months 2-4 months 4-6 months 6-8 months 8-10 months 10-12 months Use most grammatical constructions of home language well No observable skills 12-15 months 15-18 months 18-21 months 21-24 months 24-27 months 27-30 months No observable skills Produces primarily nouns Omits grammatical markers, such as “a” or “the” Produces pronouns Produces regular possessives (e.g., mommy’s) emerge Produces have and do as auxiliary verbs (“Do you like apples?”) Produces holophrastic speech (i.e., one word may mean many things) Produces utterances; produces telegraphic speech, using only key words (e.g., “Car go”) Understands and uses: Agents (e.g., mama) Actions (e.g., run) Objects (e.g., cup) Recurrence (e.g., more) Cessation (e.g., stop) Disappearance (e.g., all gone) Combines 2-3 words Produces infinitive verb phrases with hafta, wanna, gonna. (e.g., “I wanna go.”) Produces and between nouns (e.g., “I want juice and cookies.”) Produces the following morphemes: Present progressive verb + -ing (adds “ing” to words) Prepositions (in, on) Regular plurals (e.g. dolls, horses)