Preschool Years Vocabulary

2. Independence that includes personal responsibility and decision-making.
6. The tendency to focus on just one aspect of something seen.
8. The expectations that children learn are associated with being a girl or boy, including how to act, how they should feel, and what should interest them.
10. The sounds that make up words.
11. Sentence structure, or when words are combined to form grammatical sentences.
15. A noticeable lag in a particular aspect of development in a child.
17. Activities that focus on preschool children as a group without considering developmentally appropriate activities or individual preferences.
20. Age-appropriate activities and teaching methods that consider each child’s strengths, interests, and culture.

1. An ability to follow transformation of viewed objects (the properties of objects can remain the same even if the way they look changes).
3. The meaning of words.
4. Word structures and formations.
5. type of play in which children are interacting while involved in parallel play.
7. type of play in which children manipulate their environment to create objects, such as building with construction blocks, putting together puzzles, or creating a piece of art.
9. Children build something together or make up elaborate rules to play.
10. The ability to achieve and maintain a state of balance while performing an activity, such as jumping up and down or standing on one foot.
12. The sense a child has about being a boy or girl.
13. An inability to take another person’s perspective; self-focus.
14. A type of play in which children use repetitive motions, such as moving toy cars around or rocking a doll.
16. The ability to move the hands precisely in response to what the eyes see
18. Thinking about what is remembered.
19. Using language properly.