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[quote=Anonymous]I can't remember exactly. Probably around age 2?

However, one of the reasons that it can vary a lot is that you have to remember there are multiple vectors of knowledge being built here. Your kid learning his colors at age 1-6 is different than you learning a new set of facts at whatever your age is. You have extensive experience with language and understand how it works in a variety of contexts. You know how to differentiate between types of information and sort them.

Also, as with a lot of this stuff, kids have layers of knowledge that starts shallow and then gets more complete. Your child might memorize the colors of a favorite multi-color toy first, but be unable to apply this knowledge elsewhere for a while. But eventually he'll be able to understand that not only can a block be yellow, so can a leaf, and a sweater, and the background in a picture book, and an ear of corn. Let him start small though. Can he identify colors correctly in any setting, even if he gets them wrong in other settings?

Finally, here is a tip I learned when my DC was young that is useful for this kind of thing: when teaching young kids concepts, keep your language simple and put the most important information either at the beginning or end of a sentence, and preferably the end. This is because they have limited language comprehension and may not pick up on words buried in the middle. So saying "Block - Red!" is much more useful than saying "This is the red block." Your kid doesn't know what an adjective or a noun is, doesn't understand how one modifies the other. And also may not be paying close attention to longer sentences.[/quote]

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