What language skills do children acquire during middle and late childhood?
What will be an ideal response?
Children gain new skills as they enter school that make it possible to learn to read and write. These include increased use of language to talk about things that are not physically present, learning what a word is, and learning how to recognize and talk about sounds. They also learn the alphabetic principle, which means that the letters of the alphabet represent sounds of the language. Vocabulary development continues at a breathtaking pace for most children during the elementary school years. After five years of word learning, a 6-year-old child does not slow down. During middle and late childhood, changes occur in the way mental vocabulary is organized. The process of categorizing becomes easier as children increase their vocabulary. Children's vocabulary increases from an average of about 14,000 words at age 6 to an average of about 40,000 words by age 11.
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