Children's language development

Key: (.) micro-pause; (2) pause in seconds; [ ] actions; underlining replaced by CAPITALS for stress; phonetic spellings in / /. MOTHER: what's this one Tom (.) who's this TOM: /piɡ/ (.) pig MOTHER: it's a PIG (.) well done (.) and what does the pig say TOM: oink oink [laughs] MOTHER: oink oink (.) and where's the pig going TOM: pig goed in there [points to barn] MOTHER: he went in the barn didn't he (.) he went in the barn to sleep TOM: sleep (.) night night pig MOTHER: night night (.) and what about these [holds up sheep] TOM: sheeps (.) two sheeps MOTHER: two sheep (.) yes (.) can you count them TOM: one (.) two (.) free MOTHER: three (.) there's three (.) oh look at this [holds up a spider toy] TOM: /paɪdə/ (2) no like it MOTHER: you don't like the spider (.) it's only a toy TOM: Tom no like (.) mummy have it MOTHER: OK mummy will have it [puts spider away] TOM: more cow (.) where cow gone MOTHER: where has the cow gone (.) shall we look TOM: [lifts box] there it is (.) silly cow

Key: line breaks as in the original; spellings as written; the teacher's comment is shown at the end. the big storm wons apon a tim ther was a girl cold Lily. she livd in a hows by the see. won nite ther was a big storm and the wind was howling and the wavs was crashing. Lily was scard. and then she herd a nois. it was a littl dog and it was all wet. Lily let the dog in and she gave it a towl and some biscits. the dog was hapy. in the morning the storm had stopt and Lily cept the dog and cold it Storm. THE END Teacher's comment: What a lovely story Amira! I like your describing words 'howling' and 'crashing'. Next time remember your capital letters at the start of sentences. ⭐