When DD went thru the stage of not letting us read a book properly we got the books Beema mentioned - and did a similar thing, point at the object and say what it was, mainly we asked her to find an object.

DD def had a word explosion when she got nearer to 2, but she's still not making heaps of sentences unlike others at MG, but she is more advanced in other areas, which I'm sure Lachlan is too. I heard/read somewhere that they work on one area at a time.

Just keep up the running commentary and don't stress!