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- Age range: 51 to 59 months
- Developmental pillar:
- Physical and Brain Development
- Social and Emotional Development
- Learning and Cognitive Development
- Communication and Language Development
- Physical and Brain Development: How children develop
- Social and Emotional Development: How children feel and connect
- Learning and Cognitive Development: How children think and learn
- Communication and Language Development: How children communicate
Language skills blossom around age 4, and preschoolers can now pronounce most sounds of the English language. Their vocabularies expand to approximately 1,500 words, and they will gain another 1,000 before the fifth birthday. They are capable of telling elaborate stories that consist of more complex sentences with up to eight words.
References
- Shelov, S. P. (Editor-in-Chief). (2004). Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5. The American Association of Pediatrics. Revised edition. New York: Bantam Books.