WRITTEN COMMUNICATION DEVELOPMENT

CHECKLIST
Instructions: Answer all questions up to your childs current age bracket, by answering yes or
no.
Interpretation: If you tick 2 or more boxes with a yes seek therapy or contact Kid Sense
Child Development on 1300 660 067.
Does your child have difficulty with:

Age

Skill

Yes

No

2-3
years

1-2
years

0-1
years

Not applicable.

Pretending to read when others are reading.

Distinguishing print from pictures.

Pretending to read when others are reading.
Knowing basic shapes (-,I,O).

3-4 years

Recognising numbers 1-5.

Recognising and naming at least 10 letters (often the letters in
their name).
Recognising their name in print.
Recognising environmental print on signs and labels (e.g. reads
stop on a stop sign).
Reading a book from front to back.
Following left-right progression of print.

Kid Sense Child Development 2013

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Age

Skill

Yes

No

Forming pre-writing shapes (-,I,O,+,/,,\,X ).

Writing their name.
Knowing some letter names and identifying about 10 letters
(usually if its in their name).
Recognising and writing the numbers 1-5.
Learning the alphabet song.
4-5 years

Recognising and naming letters.

Understanding that letters have sounds (i.e. grapheme-phoneme
relationship awareness).
Knowing that print is what you read.
Recognising that clusters of letters separated by space, form
words.
Recognising their name in print.
Recognising environmental print on signs and labels (e.g. reads the
word stop on a stop sign).
Reading a book from front to back.
Following left-right progression of print.

Kid Sense Child Development 2013

childdevelopment.com.au

Ph 1300 66 00 67

Age

Skill

Yes

No

Recognising environmental print on signs and labels (e.g. reads the

word stop on a stop sign).
Reading a book from front to back.
Following left-right progression of print.
Understanding alphabetic principle (i.e. words are made up of
sounds; sounds can be represented by letters).
Recognising all letter names and letter sounds for consonants.

5-6 years

Recognising numbers up to 20.

Knowing the sounds for vowels (short and long).
Matching letters to sounds (grapheme-phoneme correspondence).
Decoding by identifying sounds for printed letters and synthesising
sounds across letters to form words.
Recognising some words by sight.
Tracking print when listening to a familiar story.
Reading a few short, regularly spelled words (e.g. their names or
their classmates names).
Writing basic words that are recognisable.
Putting sentences together.
Writing regular words, by listening for the sounds, using the 42
letter sounds.

Kid Sense Child Development 2013

childdevelopment.com.au

Ph 1300 66 00 67