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Language Accomplishments for Children - age 5

At age 5, most kindergartners become able to:

  • Sound as if they are reading when they pretend to read.

  • Enjoy being read to.

  • Retell simple stories.

  • Use descriptive language to explain or to ask questions.

  • Recognize letters and letter-sound matches.

  • Show familiarity with rhyming and beginning sounds.

  • Understand that print is read left-to-right and top-to-bottom.

  • Begin to match spoken words with written ones.

  • Begin to write letters of the alphabet and some words they use and hear often.

  • Begin to write stories with some readable parts.

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