MIddle and Late childhood

• Gains in middle childhood


  • Skills for team sports
  • Loses baby teeth
  • Improved motor skills
  • Socialization involved in play
  • Rough-and-tumble play
• Needs of children in middle childhood

  • More flexible rules
  • Shorter instruction time
  • More free time to practice
• Cognitive development in middle childhood

  • Better understanding of spatial concepts, causality, categorization, inductive and deductive reasoning, conservation, numbers
  • Ability to mentally juggle more concepts at the same time
  • Development of ability to regulate attention and concentrate longer
  • Ability to use selective attention and inhibitory control
• Language development in middle childhood

  • Use of increasingly precise verbs, simile and metaphor
  • Rarely use passive voice
  • More sophisticated understanding of rules of syntax
  • Sentence structure becomes more elaborate
• Boys in middle childhood

  Use more controlling statements, negative interruptions, and competitive statements
• Girls in middle childhood

  Phrase remarks in a more tentative, conciliatory way and are more polite and cooperative