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A brief checklist of pragmatic skills to assess the social language usage of a preschool age child.

This rating scale was created to have a measurable method of assessing pragmatic language/social skills/behaviors. Each skill has a description that is understandable to the student and the parents. An example of a Skill and Description is 'Making Good Choices - The student makes choices that go along with classroom rules and expectations and considers the right thing to do as well as the consequences of a bad choice’. The rating scale is completed by the teacher, speech-language pathologist,

Articulation and Language skills that can be easily targeted from the wonderful book The Bugliest Bug by Carol Diggory Shields. Articulation targets include /l/ and /l/ blends, /s/ and /s/ blends, and /r/ and /r/ blends from the story. Language targets include rhyming words, figurative language, and antonyms/synonyms from the story.