Check List

Print off this language development check list for second graders and watch them master the skills!

Understanding and Hearing

• Follow directions with three or four steps
• Understand the meaning of books, poems, and songs
• Understands informational books, text, and information when heard orally

• Tell and create oral stories to share with others
• Share information and summarize information
• Use increasingly complex sentences in oral communication
• Use words that show a growing range of interests and knowledge
• Clarify and explain words and ideas orally
• Give three or four step directions
• Indentify and use synonyms and antonyms
• Use language to inform, persuade, and to entertain