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A four-year-old child
- Seeks out and enjoys companionship of peers
- Engages in
dramatic make-believe play with peers
- Holds conversation
skillfully with a variety of people
- Able to shift attention
spontaneously from what she is doing to what somebody
is saying and back to what she
is doing again
- Continues to use strategy of doing what is usually
done in response to improbable instructions e.g. 'make
the
baby feed mum'
- Understands sentences with up to six key words e.g.
'Put the small bag and the cup under Daddy’s chair'
- Understands
and uses all basic grammatical structures with occasional
mistakes e.g. 'I went to the circus and
sawed the clowns'
- Uses language to express ideas and feelings, discuss
plans, problem-solve and negotiate
- Asks lots of questions,
especially using 'How?' and 'Why?'
- Able to express herself
clearly on most occasions, reflecting a vocabulary consisting
of thousands of words
- Uses complex sentences with two
or more verbs to link ideas
- Tells stories about connected
past events providing an introduction, sufficient background
knowledge, an account of what happened and information
on how the story ended
- Uses 'can', 'will', 'is', 'are',
'have', 'do' correctly e.g. 'I can jump'
- Speech is clear,
with few immaturities e.g. thank you --> fank you
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