4. Stage 1 - Learning Sounds
Babies listen to sounds that are close to
them. They will copy what they hear and see.
In this stage, the ability to recognize and
produce those sounds is called “phonemic
awareness,” which is important for children
learning to read.
5. • Sounds come to have meaning.
• They begin to babble around four to six months
age.
• The babbling sound "ma - ma - ma" of the
infant becomes mama.
• The most common early consonants in word-
intial position are /p/, /b/, /d/, /m/, /n/, /h/
Stage 2 - Learning Words
6. • By age two, they can produce the following
sounds; /p/, /b/, /d/, /t/, /k/, /g/, /m/, /n/, /f/, /s/,
and /w/
• There are five vowel sounds are typically
acquired quite early – /I/, /A/, /u/, and /^/
• And by age four, they can pronounce all of
consonant sounds exception; /T/ and //.
Stage 2 - Learning Words
7. • They often delete consonants at the end of a
syllable such as, pronouncing gum as ‘guh’ and
nose is ‘no’
Stage 2 - Learning Words
8. Stage 3 – Learning Sentences
During this stage, children learn how to create
sentences.
By 2-3 years old, about 90% of what children
say is grammatically correct.
But the mistakes they make are usually
mistakes like adding -ed to irregular verbs to form
the past tense.
• 6 – 12 years old: syntactic and lexical
complexity, and know more vocabularies.
• 12+ years old: Devolve to conversational skills.
