1 Wearing a short skirt and high heels

1. Wearing a short skirt and high heels 2. Living alone 3. Getting married 4. Raising children 5. Being considered sexy 6. Drinking alcohol 7. Driving a sports car 8. Having others make decisions for you 9. Displaying affection in public 10. Running a marathon 11. Running for U. S. president 12. Retiring 13. Becoming pregnant 14. Enrolling in a 4 year college degree program 15. Receiving a heart transplant

Can relate involved accounts of events, many from a time in the past Should be few lapses in grammar: e. g. pronouns, plurals All speech sounds, including consonant blends, established Should read with ease and write simple compositions Social amenities should be present in appropriate situations Control of rate, pitch, and volume are well/appropriately established Can carry on conversation at rather adult level Follows fairly complex directions with little repetition Has well developed time and number concepts

Adolescents essentially communicate in an adult manner, with increasing maturity throughout high school. Teens comprehend abstract language, such as idioms, figurative language and metaphors. Explanations may become more figurative and less literal. Literacy and its relationship to cognition, linguistic competency, reading, writing and listening are the primary focus in this age group. Teens should be able to process texts and abstract meaning, relate word meanings and contexts, understand punctuation, and form complex syntactic structures.