1 A baby approaching one year old is able to sit down from standing.
2 A baby around one year old will experiment extensively with imitating sounds and words.
3 Noam Chomsky, working in the 1960s in the USA, believed that children have to acquire the capacity for language.
4 Whatever activity you may plan and prepare for a four-year-old, there is always the opportunity to observe a child's holistic developmental response.
5 A five-year-old child continues to have difficulty pronouncing the main sounds of their heritage language spoken at home.
6 A six-year-old will not be able to follow a three-part instruction - for example, 'Go to the kitchen and bring the red bag to me in the garden.'
ANSWERS
1 True. A baby approaching one year old can sit down from standing and is able to cruise round furniture while holding on and may take a few steps independently.
2 True. A baby around one year enjoys experimenting with familiar sounds and words they hear.
3 False. Chomsky believed that children are born with an innate capacity for language development. He called this Language Acquisition Device.
4 True. It is important to be aware that children respond to activities in an holistic way. They respond intellectually, linguistically, morally, culturally, physically, socially and emotionally. Observations and assessments will help you know how beneficial the activity has been to their overall development and will help you plan further activities.
5 False. A majority of five-year-olds are able to pronounce most of the sounds of their heritage language which is spoken at home.
6 False. The increasing integrated attention span of a six-year-old child will enable him to follow and carry out three-part instructions with greater ease.
