*4.2.1 Typical*

Typically developing children in primary school can clearly use language as a tool to communicate their needs. They understand the role of letters in learning to read and grow from non-readers to fluent readers and writers within this time frame. Typically developing learners in primary school add new words to their vocabularies constantly, learning between 540 and 11,260 a year [4]. This vocabulary acquisition opens new worlds for them in books, in conversations, and through their own writing. Primary-aged students are able to connect their life experiences to the stories they hear and read, and they like to talk and write about stories. In this stage, they move from learning to read to learning from reading.
