Plans out pretend situations in advance, organizing who and what are needed for role playing Events in play are sequenced into a scenario that tells a story; links schemes into complex script with beginning, middle, and end (fix dinner, serve it, wash dishes, go to bed) Can make dolls carry out several activities or roles Creates imaginary characters Can direct actions of two dolls, making them interact 48 to 60 months Discourse Grammar Develops novel schemes for Creates and repeats patterns in Learns to abide by conversational events child has not structures (repeated rules to be clear, concise, experienced or observed use of pattern in with informative and polite Develops cooperative play different pattern for gate in fort) Produces connected discourse by Produces figure resembling target setting up transitions between (draws body and many body sentences and clarifying shifts in parts; draws house that reference from one clause or resembles a face - windows sentence to another to convey placed like eyes and door like personal experiences and tell mouth floating in space stories Understands connected discourse by using knowledge of scripts and story grammar to comprehend narratives Develops metalinguistic awareness of language structure and meaning (ability to attention on both language and content) Develops skills in making grammatical judgments, resolving lexical ambiguity, using multiple meanings of words in humor, and segmenting words into phonemes 60 to 65 months Modifies language when talking Organizes other children and play to younger child props for role play
Plans out pretend situations in advance, organizing who and what are needed for role playing Events in play are sequenced into a scenario that tells a story; links schemes into complex script with beginning, middle, and end (fix dinner, serve it, wash dishes, go to bed) Can make dolls carry out several activities or roles Creates imaginary characters Can direct actions of two dolls, making them interact 48 to 60 months Discourse Grammar Learns to abide by conversational rules to be clear, concise, informative and polite Produces connected discourse by setting up transitions between sentences and clarifying shifts in reference from one clause or sentence to another to convey personal experiences and tell stories Understands connected discourse by using knowledge of scripts and story grammar to comprehend narratives Develops metalinguistic awareness of language structure and meaning (ability to attention on both language and content) Develops skills in making grammatical judgments, resolving lexical ambiguity, using multiple meanings of words in humor, and segmenting words into phonemes Develops novel schemes for events child has not experienced or observed Develops cooperative play Creates and repeats patterns in structures (repeated use of pattern in with different pattern for gate in fort) Produces figure resembling target (draws body and many body parts; draws house that resembles a face - windows placed like eyes and door like mouth floating in space 60 to 65 months Modifies language when talking to younger child Organizes other children and props for role play play