Abbreviation: CL-S 16-26m
See also: Early Years Scale (EYFS) descriptions. Category lists.
Copies familiar expressions, e.g. ‘Oh dear’, ‘All gone’. •Beginning to put two words together (e.g. ‘want ball’, ‘more juice’). •Uses different types of everyday words (nouns, verbs and adjectives, e.g. banana, go, sleep, hot). •Beginning to ask simple questions. •Beginning to talk about people and things that are not present.