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The Savvy Quiz for your child
Language Development: Oral language

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Early language development, experts tell us, is the cornerstone of nearly every aspect of future development, not to mention success in school.

That sounds a bit daunting, doesn't it? Luckily, children are to language as fish are to water: drop them in a language-rich environment, and they learn to swim (or rather, to understand, talk, memorize, read, narrate, imagine....).

But what does a "language-rich environment" mean, exactly? And how does this amazing process of language acquisition really work? What kinds of conversations, poems, songs, books, and activities are best for our own particular children, and when? Let's find out.

The Savvy Quiz contains questions relating to children between the ages of 2-6 years old.

When speaking, my child consistently does how many of the following?


  • Raise intonation at end of a question
  • Whisper or speak softly in the library or theater
  • Accent words to indicate emphasis
  • Raise voice to indicate urgency
  • Speak more slowly when trying to explain something
0-1 2-3 4-5 Don't know

My child verbally communicates how many of the following?


  • His/her need to use bathroom
  • His/her emotions
  • Descriptions of pictures being drawn
  • His/Her apologies
  • Directions for where to find something
None 1-2 3-5 Don't know

My child provides feasible answers to "What would happen if..." questions.


    Not yet Sometimes Consistently Don't know

    My child uses increasingly specific vocabulary instead of general terms. For example:


    • Bread: biscuit, muffin, roll, bagel
    • Coat: jacket, sweat shirt, sweater
    • Talk: speak, shout, whisper
    • Big: large, huge, gigantic
    • Sad: unhappy, angry, frustrated
    Not yet Sometimes Consistently Don't know

    My child can produce a rhyming word, given words such as dog, cat, or sad.


      Not yet Sometimes Consistently Don't know

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      Your Savvy Quiz Progress

      0% Total % of Questions Answered to Date:

      Visual Arts:0%
      Language Development:0%
      Oral language: 0%
      Nursery rhymes, poems, fingerplays and songs: 0%
      Storybook reading and storytelling: 0%
      Emerging literacy skills in reading and writing: 0%
      Scientific Reasoning and the Physical World:0%
      Music:0%
      Mathematical Reasoning and Number Sense:0%
      Patterns and Classification: 0%
      Geometry: 0%
      Measurement: 0%
      Numbers and number sense: 0%
      Computation: 0%
      Autonomy and Social Skills:0%
      Movement and Coordination:0%
      Orientation in Time and Space:0%

      The Savvy Quiz is adapted from The Core Knowledge Foundation's Preschool Sequence

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