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How To Teach Reading with the Montessori Green Series
How To Teach Reading with the Montessori Green SeriesThe Montessori Green Phonics Series introduces long vowels including silent e, middle vowel teams (boat, feet, mail), r-controlled vowels, diphthongs, and variant vowels. The Green Series material includes pictures...
How to Teach Your Child to Read with the Montessori Blue Series
The Montessori Blue Phonics Series introduces children to consonant blends at the beginning and end of words, and to digraphs (sometimes called consonant clusters). The Blue Phonics Series includes pictures, 3-part cards, and word lists. It follows, and builds upon,...
How to Teach Your Child to Read with the Montessori Pink Series
The Montessori Pink Series introduces children to the letter sounds and symbols of the alphabet. The series progresses from beginning sound pictures to consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words like cat, bed, lip, pot, and bus using 3-part cards. Your child can read with...
How to Use the Montessori Sandpaper Letters
The Montessori Sandpaper Letters provide children with a tactile connection between letter sounds and their written symbols. A sandpaper cutout of each letter is adhered to a wooden card. Children trace each letter with their fingers impressing the memory with both...
How To Use the Montessori Moveable Alphabet
The Montessori Moveable Alphabet is a box of letter cutouts for each of the 26 letters in the English alphabet. Children take the letters out, put them together, and move them around to form words and sentences. There are multiples of each letter to allow several...
How to Use Montessori Phonemic Sound Objects
Pre-reading skills begin with phonemic awareness. Phonemic Awareness is the ability to identify and manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words. Words are made up of small sound units. We can isolate sounds and blend them together to make meaning. Teaching...
How to Use the Montessori Geometry Stick Box
The Montessori Geometry Stick Box contains wooden sticks of different lengths and colors with holes at each end allowing them to be connected to create any shape or angle needed in geometry investigation. This math material makes geometry concepts beautifully visual...
The Montessori Racks and Tubes Division
The Montessori Racks and Tubes Division material teaches long division with dividends into the millions. It is sometimes called Test Tube Division, Division Hierarchical Material, or simply Long Division Material. It is one of my Top Ten Math Materials for elementary....
The Montessori Fraction Circles for Elementary
The Montessori Fraction Circles are red plastic or wooden circles representing fraction pieces from 1-10. Children can easily understand the concepts of fraction families, equivalence, improper fractions, mixed numbers, and operations with fractions using the circles....
The Montessori Bead Boards for Multiplication and Division
The Montessori Bead Boards for Multiplication and Division enable children to memorize the facts in a visual kinesthetic way that supports memory recall. The "why" behind the mathematical process of multiplying and dividing becomes transparent and ingrained in a...