Skill Progression 30-33 months 33-36 months 36- 42 months 42 -48 months 48-54 months 54-60 months C. Language Converses about Produces Connected speech Produces complex Describes how to Produces 4-8 production people, places, declaratives, intelligible sentences with do something in word (or longer) and objects that negatives, prepositional detail sentences are not present questions, and phrases (e.g., imperatives “The dog is behind his Demonstrates Produces Produces pronouns Retells stories and Produces full house”), “wh” awareness that complex appropriately events in range of sentence clauses (e.g., “I sentences need sentences sequence types went where the noun and verb horse lives”), phrases simple infinitives Produces Produces spatial, Uses word order to Creates songs and (“I want to go to utterances that comparative, understand rhymes bed”) describe physical and temporal communication characteristics concepts in (“big doggie”) discussion Produces Produces and, imperative but, and because implying “you” to combine sentences Produces negative before a verb (“no go”) as well as “no,” “not,” “can’t,” “don’t” SKILL PROGRESSIONS FOR LDC GOAL 5: Children describe familiar people, places, things, and events. Skill Progression: Use of narrative skills to describe
Skill Progression 30-33 months 33-36 months 36- 42 months 42 -48 months 48-54 months 54-60 months C. Language production Converses about people, places, and objects that are not present Produces declaratives, negatives, questions, and imperatives Connected speech intelligible Produces complex sentences with prepositional phrases (e.g., “The dog is behind his house”), “wh” clauses (e.g., “I went where the horse lives”), simple infinitives (“I want to go to bed”) Describes how to do something in detail Produces 4-8 word (or longer) sentences Demonstrates awareness that sentences need noun and verb phrases Produces complex sentences Produces pronouns appropriately Retells stories and events in sequence Produces full range of sentence types Produces utterances that describe physical characteristics (“big doggie”) Produces spatial, comparative, and temporal concepts in discussion Uses word order to understand communication Creates songs and rhymes Produces imperative implying “you” Produces and, but, and because to combine sentences Produces negative before a verb (“no go”) as well as “no,” “not,” “can’t,” “don’t” SKILL PROGRESSIONS FOR LDC GOAL 5: Children describe familiar people, places, things, and events. Skill Progression: Use of narrative skills to describe
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