Montessori method: teach writing as a game from ages three to four using sandpaper letters, crayon filling, and progressive tracing¶

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Description¶

Madam Montessori teaches writing as a game between three and four years of age, beginning with children tracing with their fingers the forms of letters cut from coarse black sandpaper and pasted on white cards, while learning to read by forming words with the letters. Practice in holding the crayon comes from filling in geometrical forms, and after six or eight weeks children write simple words and sentences.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Sandpaper letters pasted on white cards, cardboard geometrical forms, colored crayons, and progression to pencil and then ink

Constraints¶

• The reviewer notes how much of the account rests on the enthusiasm of the reporter only further tests can determine

Target Learners¶

• children between three and four years of age

Target Learning Goals¶

• writing and reading of simple words and sentences

Related Strategies¶

• Multisensory Letter Formation
• Multisensory Handwriting Instruction
• Sensory Processing and Handwriting
• Air Writing
• Pre-Writing Skills Activities
• Multisensory Teaching
• Letter Formation Practice
• Drawing and Writing Developmental Stages

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Recent studies in handwriting [Unsigned review]. (1912). Journal of Educational Psychology, 3(1), 41–46. doi:10.1037/h0068789