Montessori Language Materials
(for resource and informational purposes only)
Below are featured materials that our students work with in their classrooms with their teachers. We are also building a list of resource sites for free lessons and suggested home-made materials.
Please note this is a work in progress. More info coming soon!
Grammar Boxes
This grammar series consists of 70 exercises to be used with the Grammar Boxes for the study of the nine parts of speech. The WORD CARDS are color-coded to correspond to the compartments of the wooden grammar boxes. The exercises for the Montessori Grammar Boxes also include GUIDE CARDS to provide direction and sequence for the manipulative exercises, and OBSERVATION CARDS with etymological derivations to provide reinforcement for the understanding of grammar rules. All the exercises are based on Dr. Montessori’s original grammar scheme for the study of the nine parts of speech.
The large movable alphabet is a Montessori teaching tool made up of a large box with 28 compartments and stiff, cutout letters. There should be multiples of each letter. Each letter should be placed in a box with other identical letters, and the two extra boxes can be used to hold the dots for the i’s and the j’s. Vowels are blue and consonants are red. Once a child has learned the look and sound of every one of the letters in the alphabet, the large movable alphabet can be used to teach word building.