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Language Stage Four


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Stage 4
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Stage Overview

During Stage 4, sentence forms expand with the development of wh questions. The concept of actions that happened in the past is developing, and the person learns to say common past tense verbs that do not end in –ed, such as saw, said, told, and went. Use of possessive endings will emerge.


Approx. Vocab. Size
Utterance Length in Morphenes
Examples
1,000 to 2,000 words
Range: 3.0 to 3.75 Mean: 3.5
I saw bird., Daddy’s car, I fell down., It is hot., Where is it?, Don’t want.

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Language Objectives
  • Simple Sentences
  • Add More Words
  • Asking Questions
  • Questions - Verb + Pronoun
  • Irregular Past Tense Verbs
  • Linking Verbs
  • Adjectives
  • Negative Pronoun Verb + Phrases