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- Beginning to use more complex sentences to link thoughts (e.g. using and, because)
- Able to use language in recalling past experiences
- Can retell a simple past event in correct order (e.g. went down slide, hurt finger)
- Uses talk to explain what is happening and anticipate what might happen next
- Questions why things happen and gives explanations. Asks e.g. who, what, when, how
- Beginning to use a range of tenses (e.g. play, playing, will play, played)
- Continues to make some errors in language (e.g. “runned”) and will absorb and use language they hear around them in their community and culture
- Uses intonation, rhythm and phrasing to make the meaning clear to others
- Talks more extensively about things that are of particular importance to them
- Builds up vocabulary that reflects the breadth of their experiences
- Uses talk in pretending that objects stand for something else in play, e.g. This box is my castle
