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