Classified cards play a big role in a Montessori classroom. It is the first language material offered to the child. This material not only helps a young child enrich his/her language but also helps the child form a logical mind in categorisation. Eventually, these cards also assist the child in reading and knowing the spelling.
Writing is really a way of thinking not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
Reading goes beyond pointing the text to read out loud, it’s a calming and pleasant journey to know what a book is delivering through text and illustrations.
Working with the Sandpaper Letters, children learn how the sounds they hear are written. Montessori emphasized that writing comes first, then reading. Later, by blending these sounds, children begin to read phonetic words without laborious effort.
People have great thoughts or ideas, but it’s always not an easy task to project our own thoughts verbally or even through words…why?? Perhaps a person was being pointed when he was trying to express himself…
In a Montessori classroom, we always open up a topic for children to talk about it, anything!!! Children will not be pointed if the statement they make is right or wrong, including the self exploration and the writing which comes in later after they are able to express themselves.
When children have confidence, the drive to self learning and exploring will go further, and thus making learning is joyful.
