Development - Up to 9 years - Speech and Language Link

I should be…

Beginning to understand that some phrases mean something else (metaphors) e.g. “Mummy was climbing the walls!” and asking what they mean if I don’t understand them.
Making predictions about future events e.g. say what will happen next in a story.
Beginning to ‘read between the lines’ to make simple inferences.
Understanding words that mean conditions like ‘if’, ‘or’ and ‘but not’
Providing and identifying key information needed when giving explanations.
Identifying similarities and differences and group things together in many different ways.
Using a range of regular and irregular grammatical word endings like ‘thought’, ‘might’, ‘rode’, ‘sheep’ and ‘mice’ without making many errors.
Using time related language like ‘morning’, ‘later’, ‘next week’ and ‘today’.
Using words like, ‘know’, ‘feel’, ‘sure’ and ‘guess’ to explain my thinking.

I am struggling to follow instructions in order.
I make lots of grammatical errors in my talking.
I find it hard to explain how I have worked things out.
If my speech is still hard to understand.
If I am not joining sentences together in my talking using words like ‘and’, then and ‘but’.