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Understanding and using four-word sentences
Why is this important?
As language develops, children need to understand increasingly more complex instructions and use longer sentences to describe and explain. This helps expand vocabulary and link words together using ‘a’ and ‘the’ as sentences become more like the mature adult form.
What to do
- Person (Spiderman or Batman)
- Action (‘jump’/‘sit’/‘stand’/‘lie’)
- Preposition (‘on’/‘under’)
- Place (‘table’/‘chair’)
Ask the child to:
‘Make Fifi sit under the chair.’
‘Make Batman jump on the table.’
‘Make Dora lie under the table.’