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Developmental milestones-5 to 6 years
Physical development
- Body is streamlined and longer-legged with proportions similar to those of adults
- First permanent tooth erupts
- Gross motor skills increase in speed and endurance
- Skipping appears
- Shows mature throwing and catching patterns
- Ties shoes, draws more complex pictures, uses an adultlike pencil grip, and writes name
- Can discriminate letters of the alphabet
Cognitive development
- Ability to distinguish appearance from reality improves
- Attention continues to improve
- Recall, scripted memory, and autobiographical memory improve
- Understanding of false belief improves
- Understands that letters and sounds are linked in systematic ways
- Counts on and counts down, engaging in simple addition and subtraction
Social and emotional development
- Bases understanding of people’s intentions on a wider range of social cues
- Ability to interpret, predict, and influence others’ emotional reactions improves
- Relies more on language to express empathy
- Becomes better at social problem solving
- Has acquired many morally relevant rules and behaviors
- Gender-stereotyped beliefs and behavior continue to increase
Language development
- Vocabulary reaches about 10,000 words
- Uses many complex grammatical structures
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