Check List

Print off this language development check list for first graders and watch them master the skills!

Understanding and Hearing

• Respond to books, audiotapes, video, and other media
• Ask for clarification or explanation of words or ideas
• Follow two-step and three-step directions
• Count syllables in words

• Tell and retell stories and events in logical order
• Recite poems, rhymes, songs, and stories
• Express ideas orally in complete sentences
• Increase oral descriptive vocabulary
• Initiate conversation with peers and adults
• Follow rules for conversation
• Create rhyming words orally
• Blend sounds and word parts together to make words