Preschoolers Talking And Thinking

Preschoolers Talking And Thinking

• Preschoolers are good at talking and thinking. These skills will rapidly increase but each child will develop at their own pace.
• Children want to learn. Providing stimulating experiences which are real and mean something in their lives will help them learn. For example, a ride on a bus can provide experiences about transport, wheels, people, cities, roads, advertising, bus drivers and money.
• The kind of experiences your children have affects what they think and talk about.
• The talking and thinking skills you can expect of a preschooler include them being able to:
  • re-tell a short story
  • listen while others talk
  • follow instructions which have two to four key words, 'Please put the doll with the sunhat in the stroller'
  • make connections between things, see similarities and differences between objects
  • put a group of objects in order by size
  • make simple patterns - 'blue bead, red bead, blue bead, red bead'
  • explain what things are used for 'Chop sticks are for eating'
  • show an understanding of big, little, under, over, inside, outside, in front, behind, heavy, light
  • remember things over a period of time
  • explain simple cause and effect relationships 'The stove gets hot because it is turned on'
  • concentrate alone on a task they like, sometimes for up to half an hour
  • recognise their own written names.

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