Learning happens quickly during this stage. Before you know it, your child will have mastered multiplication and long division, and will be writing book reports and research papers. This is a great time for your child to learn accountability and responsibility when it comes to his work habits. Give your child a planner to write down assignments and help him manage his time. These organizational skills will prove to be of great benefit in the years ahead.
Communication and language skills include:
- Masters all speech sounds, including consonant blends
- Appropriately controls rate, pitch, and volume of speech
- Uses complex and compound sentences easily
- Consistently uses correct grammar, including tense, pronouns, plurals
- Reads with considerable ease
- Writes simple compositions
- Able to carry on complex conversations
- Follows fairly complex directions with little need for repetition
Cognitive and intellectual skills include:
- Has well developed understanding of time and number concepts
- Thinks about things in a more organized and logical manor
- Is capable of concrete problem solving
- Can think through his/her actions and trace back to events that happened in order to explain situations
- Can talk through problems in order to solve them
- Can focus attention and take time to search for necessary information.
- Can develop a plan to meet a goal
- Has increased memory capability
From Good Kids, Bad Habits: The RealAge Guide to Raising Healthy Children by Jennifer Trachtenberg.
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