Recent Evidence Indicates That Most Children

question 127

Multiple Choice

Recent evidence indicates that most children

• A) do not experience a significant vocabulary spurt until they enter kindergarten, when vocabulary increases by 50 to 100 words per week.
• B) experience a vocabulary spurt during the toddler years, learning as many as 5 to 10 new words per day.
• C) experience a vocabulary spurt between ages 7 and 8, learning between 50 and 100 new words per day.
• D) show a steady, continuous increase in rate of word learning throughout the preschool years, adding as many as nine new words per day.

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Definitions:

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