•Overview of each strand on color chart
•Oral language preparation exercises
•Handwriting, with prerequisites
•Letter sounds and pre-reading skills
•Updated Pink, Blue, and Green sets
•Beginning concrete grammar
•Creating materials economically
•Works together with Phonics and Spelling for Everybody module
•Over 4 1/2 hours of video instruction
•Concise 50 page manual

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This module works together with the resources in the Phonics & Spelling for Everybody I Montessori Language Supplement Home Study Course. The detailed information about the phonics program, as well as a CD with files to make an extensive set of Pink, Blue, Green scheme reading materials, are in the Phonics module. If you plan to set up a complete Language Area, you will need both.

Montessori Language Curriculum Ages 3-6 Home Study Course
The Language Area is the muscular system of the Montessori classroom. This area provides the skills and vocabulary that children need to move into knowledge of every sort. When a child reads fluidly, easily, and with effortless understanding of the text, the entire world of information is within reach. Being in on the secret code of what we call each thing in the environment brings great confidence and a lifelong love of words.

Good reading habits, built on a complete knowledge of the phonetic code of English, make books of any reading level accessible to children. Montessori language exercises help children successfully avoid the potential stumbling blocks of word guessing, confusing reading and spelling strategies, and a haphazard approach to new words.

This module gives you the practical pieces you need to set up a complete beginning Language environment. You will learn how to choose and make materials that will build reading, writing, and spelling skills all year. You’ll learn to use children’s natural love of miniature objects to offer them exercises that keep them practicing each skill and
letter sound until they have it mastered. Practical guidelines are given to make quality materials economically and to make smart purchases that fit into a tight budget.

Give children strong reading, spelling, and writing skills, along with a large vocabulary, and they will confidently explore knowledge on their own. A love of books and writing will open doors for them all their lives.


Phonics & Spelling for Everybody I Montessori Language Supplement Home Study Course
Reading well and spelling well require two very different learning strategies. With a strong visual memory foundation, children can learn to spell well much as they learn



v Montessori Language Curriculum Manual Highlights

Montessori for Everybody Overview
Strands of the Montessori Language Area
Video Presentations Summary
Nursery Rhymes
Oral Language Games
Sounds First and Notes for Parents
Respectful Language for Guiding Children
Potential Pitfalls in the Language Area
Pre-reading Exercises Rotation Plan
Writing
Montessori Approaches to Teaching Reading

Updated Pink, Blue, and Green Reading Scheme
Small Group Work: Period 2.5 of the Three Period Lesson
Creating Language Area Exercises

Miniature Objects and Attracting the Learner

Books for Beginning Readers                     
Grammar for Young Children

Beginning Word Study

Materials and Exercises Lists for Language 

The Problem with Puzzle Words
Resource Section


v Video Highlights
Passage to Abstraction
Rhyming
Methods in the Language Area Overview
Oral Language Games

Books

Materials in the reading progression

Materials in the writing progression

Oral Language Games
Fantasy discussion
Sound Awareness Games
Books
Prereading Shelf work
Three Period Lesson, Matching Objects
More Matching Exercises
Go-together Cards; Control of Error
Opposites Cards
Classification
Sequencing Cards

Rhyming Objects & Cards
Various additional pre-reading exercises
Writing and Reading Materials Introduction

Geometric or Metal Insets
Sandpaper Letters
Teaching a phonetically irregular language
Sounds first, letter names later
Movement and the Movable Alphabet
Phonetic Reading
Consonant Shelf - 1st Exercise: Sandpaper Letters
Initial or Beginning Consonant Exercise Series
Ending Sound Consonants
Pink Level Reading

Blending
Word Building: Exercise #1
Small Pink Books
Long Pink Lists
Labeling Exercises
Short Sentences
“A” and “The” exercises

More Practice Exercises – Insta-Learn STEP board
Stetros®
Rubbing Boards and Templates
Monochomatic Isolation of Difficulty
Grammar Introduction

The Farm/Miniature Environment
Noun Commands - Pink Cabin
Adjective Commands
Verb Commands
Remaining parts of speech commands
Word Study Introduction
Key Experiences: Noun & Verb

Verb Study – Red Command cards, Pink level
First Printed Adjective Study
The Preposition
Adverb Labels for the Second Farm
Pronoun Key Experience
Interjection Key Experience
Concrete experiences first, rule-oriented, more abstract sorting later
Blue Reading

Blue shelf 1
Small Group Cards
Puzzle Words
Green Reading

First Keys to Books, Booklet 1
Cards