60 months

From Children’s Language Development from 6 months to 8 years http://www.earlyyearscareers.com/eyc/learning-and-development/childrens-language-development-6-months-8-years/ Some teaching points? Can the children in my target group do these highlighted things? Can use many descriptive words spontaneously (both adjectives and adverbs) *Knows common opposites: big-little, hard-soft, heave-light, etc *Able to count to ten *Speech should be completely intelligible *Should have all vowels and the following consonants; m,p,b,h,w,k,g,t,d,n,ng,y *Should be able to repeat sentences (containing up to 9 words) *Should be able to define common objects in terms of use (hat, shoe, chair) *Should be able to follow three commands given without interruptions *Should understand and use simple concepts of time such as ‘morning’, ‘afternoon’, ‘night’, ‘later’, ‘after’, ‘tomorrow’, ‘yesterday’ and ‘soon’ *Should be using long sentences and some complex sentences *Speech on the whole, should be grammatically correct

6 years

*In addition to the above consonants these should be mastered: f, v, sh, zh, th, *Speech should be completely intelligible *Should be able to tell a story connected to a picture, seeing relationships between objects and experiences