Do you feel lost when it comes to teaching Montessori language arts?
Well, don’t worry, because you’re not alone. Many teachers and homeschoolers feel overwhelmed when it comes to teaching language, grammar, and comprehension.
But luckily, the Montessori method offers a sequence of lessons, a tried and true approach, that can help make teaching language arts a bit easier to digest. In this post, we’ll take a look at the Montessori language sequence of lessons.
This Montessori Language Sequence of Lessons is the one I learned in training. I hope you find it useful. Please contact me with any questions or comments.
Montessori Language Sequence of Lessons
Pre-Reading & Writing
There are many Montessori lessons that begin language work well before a child grasps reading and writing. Remember, there is a range of development.
Create the environment to allow the child to discover reading and writing on his own time and you will have a lifelong lover of language.
- 3-period lesson – an important foundational lesson for the guide.
- Object to Object Matching
- Object to Picture Matching
- Picture to Picture Matching: Small to Large
- Look Alike: Matching
- Simple Nomenclature Cards
- Classification: Category
- Classification: Does Not Belong
- Simple Patterns
- Story Sequence Cards
- Metal Insets
- Pin Punching
- Silence Game
Montessori Language Pink Level
The pink level is the first concrete step into reading and writing. The materials are beautiful and multi-sensory.
For example, while the child is sounding out a letter (which is a symbol for the sound, while the alphabet organizes letters for us), he is also tracing the sandpaper letter.
- Sandpaper Letters
- Initial Sounds: Objects and Sandpaper Letter Groupings
- Initial Word Building Sandpaper Letters
- Introduction to the Movable Alphabet
- Association of the Movable Alphabet and the Sandpaper Letters
- Short Vowel Word Building: Movable Alphabet and Sandpaper Letters
- Movable Alphabet: Short Vowel Words with Objects
- Movable Alphabet: Short Vowel Words with Pictures
- Short Vowel Word Labels and Objects
- Short Vowel Word Labels and Pictures
- Mixed Objects: Writing 3 Letter Words
- Mixed Pictures: Writing 3 Letter Words
- Short Vowel Command Cards
- Introduction to Pink Level Sight Words
- Short Vowel Command Cards: Word Phrases
- Short Vowel Sentence Booklets
Montessori Language Blue Level
The blue level begins to move the child from concrete to abstract with more advanced letter-sound combinations and vocabulary.
- Digraph Sandpaper Letters
- Consonant Digraph Word Building: Movable Alphabet & Sandpaper Letters
- Movable Alphabet: Consonant Digraphs and Objects (or Pictures)
- Consonant Digraph Word Labels and Objects (or Pictures)
- Mixed Consonant Digraph Object Box
- Mixed Consonant Digraph Picture Box
- Consonant Digraph Command Cards
- Consonant Digraph Command Cards: Word Phrases
- Consonant Digraph Compound Words
- Consonant Digraph Compound Word List
- Consonant Digraph Sentence Strips
Montessori Language Green Level
The final and most advanced level in the Montessori early childhood language sequence. Grammar can begin to be introduced at this time, too.
- Phonogram Word Lists
- Silent (Mute) /e/
- Movable Alphabet: Phonograms and Objects (or Pictures)
- Phonograms: Word Labels and Objects
- Phonograms: Word Labels and Pictures
- Phonograms: Booklets and Objects
- Mixed Phonogram Object Box
- Green Level Sight Words
- Sentence Strips
- Classified Nomenclature Cards
- Environment Pictures with Labels
Download the Language Lesson Sequence
Montessori Language Resources
- Object Boxes from Montessori Services
- Montessori Lower and Capital Case Sandpaper Letters w/ Boxes
- Safari Toobs
- Japanese Erasers
- Small Chalkboard
- Language downloads from Montessori Printshop
- Metal Insets and Metal Inset Tray
- Letter Formation: Tracing Guide
- Montessori: Letter Work
- Montessori Small Wooden Movable Alphabet with Box (Red & Blue, 5mm thick)
- Pin Punching Set
- Pin Poking downloads from Montessori Printshop
