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Hand writing and grammar exercise
Q1. How do we give the concept of grass letters, root letter and sky letters to
the child?
Answer:
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 small alphabet rather than capital (“a” and “b,” not “A”
and “B”). During the introduction of the small alphabet to the child the sounds are
pronounced instead of the words.
Using the Moveable Alphabet
Take the small alphabet set and all the letters should be in the same colour.
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”.
If the child is enthralled by an object and wants to start with that particular one,
do
not worry. It just means that the child has to read more cards as s/he has to read
through the pile to find the appropriate card.
Presentation-3
Again, once the child has worked with the early grammar adjective cards, you can
introduce him/her to the adjective cards in the farm box, showing him/her how to
place the adjective cards in front of the noun cards (revision of noun and adjective
game). The child reads the noun card, finds the object and is asked to read
through
the adjective cards to find a word that describes the object, e.g., ‘plump’ to go
with
‘piglet’.
At this point, you can also introduce the first set of article cards in lower case,
showing the child how to place this in front of the adjective Card.
The child then puts the cards at the bottom of their respective piles, reads the
next
noun card ‘man’, looks through the adjective cards and finds ‘strong’, e.g., ‘the
strong man’. The child continues using the cards in this way.
5. Prepare material of the following and send along with the assignment.
Logical Adjective Game
Adjective Cards
Verb Cards