Subject: The Montessori Method of Education and Letters and Sounds.
Author:
Carolyn Heaney
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Date Posted:11:34:28 02/12/08 Tue
When Letters and Sounds: Principals and Practice of High Quality Phonics(DFES 2007) was introduced I was delighted, because as a Montessori teacher, teaching the sounds of the letters was something I had always done. Maria Montessori placed a great deal of emphasis on the first six years of the child's life. She wrote a great deal about the importance of language development during this period. And from her interest she devised many educational materials.To give the child a sensory experience she made sandpaper letters for the child to feel the shape of each letter. Another wonderful learning material was called the large movable alphabet (cut out letters in a tray each in their own compartment) The young child could then word-build even before he/she could write. To help with writihg skills children in a Montessori class use inset shapes, tracing over the curves of for eg circles and ovals and the straight lines of for eg rectangles and squares.The Montessori Method had it's centenary in 2007 marking the opening of the first school. This approach has always advocated phonics and multi-sensory teaching methods.
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