Language Arts

Language Arts include oral language development, written expression, reading, grammar, and children's literature. Reading and writing skills are developed through the use of sandpaper letters, moveable alphabets and various presentations allowing children to link sounds and letter symbols effortlessly and to express their thought in writing.

At Coleman Montessori Center, each letter is introduced by its phonetic sound. As a child learns each phonetic sound of the alphabet, it is placed in his phonetic alphabet book and reviewed daily as shown below. In the picture below, a student is working with the sandpaper letter r. He is learning the formation of the letter symbol for the phonetic sound r. Sight words are introduced in Montessori Language Arts. In the picture below, a student is receiving a presentation of sight words with a control of error. After a student has been presented with a lesson of sight words, the sight words learned are written on red paper in black ink and placed in the child's sight word box to be reviewed daily.

The student below is working on the Pink Material which focus on 3-letter phonetic words.