Nursery World - What do you know? (8)

Test your knowledge about child development, the value of play in the early years and the importance of observing and assessing young children by answering true or false. By early years authors Jackie Harding and Liz Meldon-Smith 1 A baby approaching one year old is able to sit down from standing.

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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