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.

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