Motor development in Middle Childhood:
The period of middle childhood starts from 7th year and continues up to the 10th year. During this period, children become active and agile. They have strong desire to engage in various physical movements and activities. During this period, children have a desire to compete with children of their own age group. They also have an urge to improve upon their previous performance. During this period, most of the children achieve mature patterns of fundamental motor skills. Their posture and balance become better.
They try to become efficient in the variation of movements which they had already learnt. In fact, the same movements are performed differently for different aims such as jumping for distance or height, throwing for distance or height, etc. They become efficient in movement coupling, movement precision and movement flow. The speed-related abilities develop at a faster rate. Coordinative abilities also show a higher level of development in this age group, whereas flexibility develops at a very slow rate. During this period, rules should be flexible, instruction time should be short and there should be minimum competitions. Stress should be given on movement correction.