Development - Up to 5 years - Speech and Language Link

I should be…

Understand all instructions containing 4 parts (e.g. give big teddy the blue spoon) where there is a choice of objects for the underlined words.
Beginning to understand sequence words like ‘first’ ‘next’ and ‘last’.
Understanding ‘when’ and ‘why’ questions.
Beginning to recognise some similarities and differences e.g. spot an odd one out and name things in groups (e.g. vegetables, sports..).
Asking if I do not know what a word means.
Linking lots of ideas together by using words like “but”, “so, “if” and “then”, as well as “and” and “because”.
Beginning to reason and can explain why something has happened.
Retelling stories in the right order.
Beginning to use pronouns like ‘them’, ‘him’, and ‘her’.
Able to listen to you and concentrate on my task easily.
Beginning to refocus my attention on a task when I get distracted without your help.
Recognising lots of sounds at the beginning of words.
Recognising if two words rhyme e.g. pat and cat rhyme but pat and pot don’t.

I find it difficult to explain what I mean all the time.
It can be hard to follow my talking when I am talking about events that have happened. (e.g. I don’t give you all the important information)
I still make occasional speech sound errors.
I still need your help to refocus my attention after a distraction.

I am struggling to follow instructions, perhaps only completing one part but not the whole thing.
I am struggling to understand the order things happen in.
My talking is hard to understand when you don’t know the context.
I am struggling to ask and answer simple questions about a story or event.
I am unable to concentrate for more than two or three minutes on a task.