SLP Recommendations: 5 Years
Beloved wordless book, heartfelt story of a boy's Christmas adventure. Work on sentence generation and description!
#1 NY Times best seller, hilarious story about a boy, tacos, & dragons. Work on description, blend, /l/, & /t/ sounds, and more!
Ultimate mess-free sensory toy, promotes commenting, sentence generation, & creativity
Interactive book, reveals a hidden picture when a page is lit up from behind. Work on requesting, describing, and prepositions.
Encourages vocabulary, joint attention, and interactive communication skills
Boosts vocabulary, inferencing, and social-emotional understanding in children
Fun STEM toy, promotes following directions, vocabulary, observation & critical thinking skills
Builds vocabulary, inferencing, perspective-taking, and emotional awareness
Fun facts
By age 5, kids can pronounce most if not all of their sounds correctly.
Grammar is solid — 5-year-olds use past, present, and future tenses, pronouns, and possessives correctly most of the time.
By age 5, children speak in full sentences and tell short stories with a beginning, middle, and end.