Childhood Map

Discover the amazing things 5-year-olds are learning — from climbing and jumping to friendships, feelings, and first words on a page. Each skill comes with fun activities you can try together.

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by Robert Pankowecki
Communication & Pragmatics

The social use of language — how children use verbal and non-verbal means to interact, share meaning, and navigate social situations.

Sources (5)
  • Head Start ELOF (Language & Communication)
  • SLP Standards (Pragmatic Language)
  • CASEL (Relationship Skills)
  • UK EYFS (Communication & Language)
  • Teaching Strategies GOLD
5 Subdomains
Conversational Skills › Social & Pragmatic Language › Theory of Mind › Narrative & Discourse Skills › Non-Verbal Communication ›
Narrative & Discourse Skills

Constructing extended spoken texts — telling stories, explaining processes, and recounting experiences.

Examples & Achievements

  • Tells a personal story with beginning, middle, and end
  • Retells a familiar story in correct sequence
  • Explains how to do something step by step ("first you... then you...")
  • Describes an event so that a listener who was not there can understand
  • Uses connecting words (then, so, because, but) in narratives

How to Measure

  • Narrative scoring scheme (story grammar elements present)
  • Retells a 3-event story in correct sequence
  • Includes 2+ story grammar elements (character, setting, problem, resolution)
  • TNL-2 (Test of Narrative Language)
Sources (3)
  • SLP Standards
  • Head Start ELOF
  • EYFS

Childhood Map › Communication & Pragmatics

Narrative & Discourse Skills

Constructing extended spoken texts — telling stories, explaining processes, and recounting experiences.

Examples & Achievements

How to Measure

Sources