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.'
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