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The understanding of the relationship between executive functions (specifically cognitive flexibility) and language development (narrative production) in 5-6 years old children remains limited and contradictory. In this study we asked 269 monolingual children who are developing typically to perform DCCS method, Raven’s progressive matrices and to create four narratives (retelling, creating a story based on one picture and creating a story based on series of pictures) with the aim to examine significant predictors of the language development level in preschoolers. In children’s narratives one can distinguish macrostructure and microstructure. The results showed that there is a strong correlation between cognitive flexibility and macrostructure indicators of narrative production whereas microstructure indicators are less significant. The children who were able to perform the most difficult task of DCCS method, were much better in narrative production. Raven’s results do not contribute significantly to narrative indicators.