Communication and language
- Start to say how they are feeling, using words as well as actions.
- Start to develop conversation, often jumping from topic to topic.
- Develop pretend play: ‘putting the baby to sleep’ or ‘driving the car to the shops’.
- Listen to simple stories and understand what is happening, with the help of the pictures.
- Identify familiar objects and properties for practitioners when they are described: for example: ‘Katie’s coat’, ‘blue car’, ‘shiny apple’
- Understand and act on longer sentences like ‘make teddy jump’ or ‘find your coat’.
- Understand simple questions about ‘who’, ‘what’ and ‘where’ (but generally not ‘why’).
- Enjoy listening to longer stories and can remember much of what happens
- Identify familiar objects and properties for practitioners when they are described: for example: ‘Katie’s coat’, ‘blue car’, ‘shiny apple’
- Understand and act on longer sentences like ‘make teddy jump’ or ‘find your coat’.
- Understand simple questions about ‘who’, ‘what’ and ‘where’ (but generally not ‘why’).
- Enjoy listening to longer stories and can remember much of what happens
- Pay attention to more than one thing at a time, which can be difficult.
- Use a wider range of vocabulary.
- Understand a question or instruction that has two parts, such as: “Get your coat and wait at the door”.
- Understand ‘why’ questions, like: “Why do you think the caterpillar got so fat?”