Montessori Language Curriculum Areas

                      Montessori Language

The Montessori language Curriculum has 4 areas. They are

1. Preliminary Activities
2. Pink Series
3. Blue Series
4. Green Series

These areas fall under these:

• The Oral Language Exercise
• The written Language Exercise
• Reading

The Oral Language Exercise

Preliminary Activities: These involves all the activities that will help the child hear the spoken language, acquire language and use language in context. It also includes the activities that will help the child to know and understand the graphical symbols of the language of his immediate environment.

When the child arrives in a Montessori classroom, he already has a completion of the spoken language. During his first three years of life, the child has been constructing his language and now, in the Montessori classroom, he will be consolidating what he knows. Because the child's will is being constructed, he can consciously begin to explore language. This is the perfect time for the child to gain the correct tools in his home language.

To teach the child correct oral language, Montessori split the learning into two groups. The first group she called: "The Enrichment of Vocabulary". In these activities, the child learns new words on a daily basis through formal lessons and classified groups. The second group of oral work is called: "Language Training". In these Exercises, the child experiences a great variety of language experiences. He learns through the many forms of literature, Exercises in self-expression, and games to learn the grammar of the language. Through both of these groups of Exercises, the child's later learning in reading will be facilitated by the recognition of words. This is the foundation for all other language expressions.

 

The purposes in Montessori's Oral Language lessons are vast. Children will gain a clarity in speech, a large expansion of vocabulary, a familiarity in various aspects of language such as correct usage of the language, artistic expression, a large range of language, awareness of the language structure, and most importantly an appreciation and enjoyment of language. Through all of the Exercises, the child is also being indirectly prepared for the written language work of creative writing and later, total reading.

 

In the Oral Language lessons, materials are used from the classroom to aid the child's learning. Some lessons call for objects directly in the classroom, other lessons call for classified cards, different pieces of literature, and even the directress as a language model and source for learning. Because the directress is such an important part in the child's growth in the Oral Exercises, it is important for her to remember to do these lessons on a daily basis with every child in the class.

The following are activities that are done to aid the child to hear, acquire and use the spoken language.

• Conversations at a picture
• Tongue twisters
• Poetry
• Songs
• True stories

Books

• Read aloud
• Wordless books
• Parts of a book
• Types of books

The question game

Enrichment of vocabulary

• Body parts
• Means of transportation
• Objects in the kitchen, bedroom, toilet, hospital, etc
• Objects & furnishings
• Vocabulary cards
• Sorting cards
• Matching objects
• Matching cards
• Sorting & matching

 

Listen & Do

• Furnishings & surroundings
• Names of the exercises
• Objects within exercises
• Classifications (e.g., brushes)

Sound games

This is an activity that introduces the child to objects and their beginning sounds.

It is done in different stages.

• Presentation: Beginning sounds on child’s person
• Level 1: Beginning sounds
• Level 2: Beginning & ending sounds
• Level 3: Beginning, ending, & middle sounds
• Level 4: All sounds (segmenting)

To prepare your child to understand the letter sounds and corresponding objects, get our Interactive Preschool Learning Binder for Understanding Letter Sounds here.

The written Language Exercise

• Sandpaper letters
• Pink & blue
• Pink, blue, & green
• Knock knock
• Trace the table/air

Metal insets

• Outline & thick fill
• Outline & fine fill
• Two insets
• Three insets
• One inset two ways
• One inset three ways
• Free design
• Graded shading

The Pink Series is the scheme that exposes children to two or three letter words that are phonetically pronounced.

There are six boxes in this scheme and each is classified under the short vowel sounds of “a”, “e”, “i”, “o” and “u”. The sixth box comprises of boxes 1-5

The activities under this scheme to help children read 2 and 3 letter words that are phonetically pronounced include:

• .    Word building with object and LMA
• .    Word building with objects and name tags
• .    Word building with picture cards and LMA
• .    Word building with pictures and nametags
• .    Wordlist
• .    Substitution cards
• .    Rhyming words families
• .    Pink Action words
• .    Sentence cards
• .   Attached sentence cards
• .   Detached sentence cards
• .    Pink series sight words - use 3 period lesson

Get Pink Series Box One Activity Worksheets contains activities to teach and reinforce words in the box one of the pink series. Here is also a comprehensive printable workbook that contains all the activities for box 1-5. By stage five, most children can start reading three letter words story books. Also, our learning Binder for Pink Words is available here

                                   

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