Your toddler should be able to:

• Say the names of simple body parts, such as nose and tummy.
• Listen to stories and say the names of pictures.
• Understand simple sentences such as “where’s daddy?”
• Use more than fifty words such as ‘no’, ‘gone’, ‘mine’ and ‘teddy’.
• Talk to themselves or their toys during play.
• Sing simple songs and nursery rhymes.
• Use pronouns such as ‘he’ and ‘it’ instead of names.
• Try simple sentences such as ‘milk all gone’.