3.5 – 4 Years
RECEPTIVE LANGUAGE
- Shows awareness that some words begin or end with the same sound
- Understands more adjectives, such as ‘tall’ and ‘short’
- Understands spatial language concepts such as ‘next to,’ ‘behind’ and ‘in front’
- Starts to understand ‘why’ questions
- Starts understanding some numbers
EXPRESSIVE LANGUAGE
- Able to produce 1000-1500 words
- Correctly starts using personal pronouns such as ‘he/she’ and ‘I/me/mine’ and negations such as don’t/can’t
- Starts to use language to make jokes
- Starts using joining words such as ‘and,’ ‘because’ and ‘but’ to make longer sentences
- Starts to correctly respond to ‘why’ questions
- Can tell a story in the correct sequence of events
