Name: Areeba Haroon

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ASSIGNMENT MODULE 6

Q) How can we give the concept of grass letter, root letter and sky
letter to the child ?
INTRODUCTION:
The most important preparation of the environment for the
successful development of spoken and written language in the
child’s personality is the home language. It is never too early to
speak clearly and precisely to the child. The successful
environment for the language is created at home by the
mothers and the caregivers. Reading aloud for the child at
home, gives the message to the child that reading is a fun for
him. Reading the story books for the child by his mother at
home makes the meaning clear and he knows how to use the
word with the sense in his language. The child also builds his
vocabulary unconsciously through listening to the story books
from his mother which would never come up in spoken
language. Although reading and writing should not be taught to
a child before the age of six or seven, yet he is introduced to
the concept of reading and writing by giving the sensorial
experiences of appropriate materials and sometimes as early as
three or four years of age. Since 99% of written language is in
lower case letters. In the Montessori classroom and at home
the child should be taught firstly with the
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small alphabet rather than capital (“a and “b,” not “A” and “B”).
During the introduction of the Using the Moveable Alphabet Take
the small alphabet set and all the letters should be in the same
color. Take either one large piece of cloth or the piece of paper
with four lines, the top and bottom lines are pink in color and the
rest of the two lines are aquamarine.
Concept of the Grass Letters:
First of all try to give the concept of the grass letters to the child.
Thus, take out the letter” a” from the box and place it between
the first set of lines. Then teach to the child that the letter fits
completely within the middle two lines is called the grass letter
and ask the child to try to find out other letters that can be
perfectly fit between the two lines. When he has placed all those
letters which are fit between two lines, tell him that these are all
grass letters in small alphabet. (a, c, e, i , m, n, o, r, s, u, v, w, x, z)
These letters are called” the grass letters”.
Concept of the Sky Letters:

Next, take out the letter” b” and place it at the beginning of the
second set of guide lines and show to the child that a letter with a
stem goes up to the pink line is called a sky letter. Then, ask the
child to find out all other letters with the stem going up to the
pink line. When the child is successful in completing to fit the
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letters up to the pink line then make him introduce that these
letters are called” the sky letters”.(b, t, d, f, h, k, l, b).
Concept of the Root Letters At the end, on the third set of guide
line, place the letter” j” The child is ready to learn about the third
set of the guide line, tell the child that which letter with a tail
going down to the lower pink line is called the root letter. Then,
ask the child to find out all other letters with a tail going down.
These letters are called” the root letters”. p, g, j, y". grass, sky
and root letters are introduced to the child in the Montessori
classrooms through” Three period Lesson”. Actually three period
lesson is very important in teaching to the children not only in the
Montessori Classroom but also at home. Mothers of all over the
world can make the child intelligent through giving the basic idea
of the knowledge. ( so, provide the material of learning the
knowledge to the child whenever he likes.