Children's counting skills pass through various stages:
* Knowing some number names
* Knowing the order of the numbers
* Knowing what number comes next
* Saying the numbers in sequence
* Saying one number for each object counted
* Organising the count so objects are only counted once
* Knowing that the last number is how many there are altogether.
Ten steps to counting
Practitioners need to be aware of children's developing understanding of number in their observations. Ten steps to observe are when a child:
* Uses some number words in play
* Says strings of numbers followed by random numbers
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