Theme I: Experiencing Learning
Unit 3: Growth and Development
CURRICULUM GUIDE FOR S.C. TEACHER CADET COURSE | EXPERIENCING EDUCATION, TENTH EDITION
Ages Two to Six:
Cognitive: Preoperational
• Gradual development of ability to think in symbolic form
• Able to think operations through in one direction
• Egocentric: difficulty seeing others’ points of view
Psychosocial: Initiative v. Guilt
• Pursuing activity for its own sake
• Learning to accept without guilt that certain things are not allowed
• Imagination; play-acting adult roles
Language: Receptive Language
• Points to pictures of common objects when they are named
• Can identify objects when told their use
• Enjoys listening to storybooks and requests them again
• Begins to understand sentences involving time (ex. tomorrow)
• Carries out a series of two to four related directions
• Understands sequencing of events when told
• Incorporates verbal directions in play
Language: Expressive Language
• Gives first and last name
• Asks what and where questions
• Makes negative statements (“I can’t open it.”)
• Tells of past experiences
• Joins sentences together to form compound sentences
• Talks about causality using because and so
• Tells content of a story, but may confuse facts
Play: Productive (ages one to three)
• Satisfies the need to be in control and have power
• Enhances the elaboration of language in social texts
Play: Reproductive (ages three to six)
• Inventing symbolization in art
• Pretend play
• Early writing
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