Elementary Grade Level Expectations

~Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.~

-James Baldwin

Kindergarten age 5

• The child should be intelligible at least 50% of the time & have all vowels plus: P, M, H, N, W, B, K, G, D, F, & Y

• The child should be speaking in complete sentences consisting of at least 4 words.

On the average the kindergarten student is beginning to:                                                       

• Use prepositional phrases
• Use plurals, & present progressives (-ing endings)
• Use regular past tense (-ed)
• Use possessive nouns and pronouns
• Use future tense verbs
• Ask yes/no questions

• Indicate the functions of objects
• Label all common objects in familiar environments
• Understand basic positional, quantity, & time concepts
• Sequence 2 steps visually & verbally

• The first grade student should be able to pronounce the T & NG sounds.
• The child should be intelligible at least 65% of the time

The first grade child is able to understand and begin to use:

• Noun - verb agreement (is, are)

• Possessive Pronouns

• Negatives

• Infinitive complements ("wants to go", "wants to climb")

• Conjunctions

• Participles & simple WH questions

• The child is able to make associations and categorize.

• The child is able to verbalize how two things are the same or different.

• The child is able to understand complex positional, quantity, and time concepts.

• The child is able to sequence 3-4 steps visually & verbally.