When should a child know how to do these things

[Vinytheure]

Hi everyone,
I’m worried about my son and suspect some level of developmental delay, so I was wondering approximately how old children are learn these things:

• Alphabet and letter sounds
• reading simple 3 letter words
• counting up to 100
• recognizing numbers up to 100, as in points to 83 when asked and can type 83 on a keyboard
• write their own
• write letters and numbers
• Know all their shapes and colours

thank you

Depends on the child and the teacher.
Most of it largely depends on who is teaching them and whether they are focussed on these bits of knowledge versus other things.

You can hothouse children to learn these specific things but they can still have a learning disability.

Reception age imo, except the recognising or writing numbers to 100 which would be a year or two older.

Shapes and colours - age 2
Alphabet and letter sounds- age 3-4
Reading simple 3 letter words - age 4
Writing their own name - age 4
Writing letters and numbers - age 4
Counting up to 100 - age 5
Recognising up to 100 - age 5

Some of those things on your list should be earlier than others, like knowing shapes and colours would come before being able to type a number on a keyboard. But in my opinion the age once they would be able to do everything on your list would probably be 5-6.

My son just turned 4 and can do them things however his teacher said he’s working at the year above for numbers (he recognises numbers up to 100). So I would say 5-6 :)

Should read this as a minimum... Eg, I would expect most kids would read cat, but, dog during reception.
Most should be able to do this by end of autumn term in Reception.
Not by age 4.

As pp said they're different skills.

Knowing colours is different to knowing shapes.

It depends on the child. My son just turned 4 last month and he can read simple books. He can sound out and read words longer than 3 letters like “letter” “train” “November” “clock” “planet” “sheep” “father” “waterfall”. But I’ve only heard him count as far as 20 as he doesn’t seem to be as interested in numbers as letters and words. He’ll confuse 23 and 32 and sometimes say them correctly, sometimes not. I’m not concerned about it. He knows all his shapes and colours.

Yes at age 4, not by age 4 as then they’d be doing it age 3. I would expect a child to be able to read simple 3 letter words at some point whilst they are age 4, before they turn 5 for example.

Knowing colours obviously a lot earlier (I would expect a 2 year old to be able to differentiate between red and blue). Everything else they will be taught in Reception.

Some kids will know some bits earlier, but not many will know all of it before they start school. Most of them will know it by the end of the Reception year.

One of my kids could do that at 4, the other not until 6. Both were withing 'normal' range, and (a few years on) one isn't noticeablely more intelligent then the other, they Judy had different strengths and interests at different ages.

thank you everyone!

Colours, shapes, numbers etc I would expect to see earlier.
There is a difference between reciting numbers 1 to 100 and counting. Counting comes a bit later.
Writing happens later because there it requires more development fine motor skills etc.
I don't think you can put an age on it, but you would expect a reception age child to have mastered most of them.

There's a range.

Colors and shapes should be recognized between 2 and 3.

The rest, anywhere up to 5/6.

OP it really is a range. My eldest was terribly late to do all those things, but she got there in the end. No developmental problems. She just took her time. She did brilliantly all through high school, is socially capable, and is now studying law.

My dgd was slow for all those things but now she is doing really well in secondary school

According to the national curriculum/EYFS:

By age 4:
Writing some or all of their name
Talking about shapes including the names of shapes
Writing numbers
Use and explore colours and colour mixing

By age 5:
Recognising letter sounds
Reading simple words containing letter sounds that they know
Writing letters

By age 6:
Counting and using numbers up to 100

So unless your child is 5/6 and not doing these things, you probably don't need to worry. As others have said they are also examples which are quite tricky to say because many children are coached in these things from an earlier age because they are somewhat easy to parrot.

If they can't do that by end of Y1 Id be worried.

Not knowing your child and their age etc...

But struggling with some of the "basics" in Reception was the earliest sign of my DDs dyslexia. It was tricky as you also had severe speech delay.