Read and Write the Montessori Way is designed for parents who want to incorporate Montessori language, reading, and writing into their home environment with children aged two and one-half to five! This 135-page e-book includes:

• over 20 lesson activities
• a 45-page printer-friendly version (text only)
• books to read

Table of Contents

• The Sensitive Period for Language: an excerpt from COSMIC EDUCATION by Ursula Thrush
• Montessori Language & Outline for Ages Three to Nine
• Outline for Language Development
• The Classified Picture Cards
• Objects with the Same Beginning Sound, Activity One
• Can you help my bilingual toddler with language delays?
• I Spy Game
• Sandpaper Letters or Sounds
• Increasing Your Older Child’s Vocabulary the Montessori Way
• Practical Life Vocabulary Words for the Sensorial Materials at the Pre-Reading Stage
• How to Begin Teaching the Alphabet
• Three-Year-Old Struggling With Montessori Letters and Numbers
• Montessori Fine Motor and Pre Writing Activities
• Sandpaper Letters: Write
• Moveable Alphabet
• Moveable Alphabet: Pre-Moveable Alphabet Lesson
• Introduction To Writing: an excerpt from COSMIC EDUCATION, by Ursula Thrush
• The Case for Cursive (from Meadow Montessori): Penmanship
• Learning to Write Your Name
• Writing On the Line
• Introduce Poetry to Your Children Using the Montessori Method
• How to Make a Poetry Basket
• The Study of Aesop’s Fables for Your Montessori Environment
• Montessori Reading (or Memorizing?)
• Montessori and Trouble Reading Phonetically
• What are Montessori’s thoughts on reading great literature and reading widely?
• Our Six-Year-Old Is Not interested in Reading
• Is My Child Ready for Phonetic Reading and the Reading Object Box?
• Introduction to Language: The Reading Stage
• Tracing
• Labeling
• Dictation
• Dictation with the Phonograms
• Reading Introduction: an excerpt from COSMIC EDUCATION by Ursula Thrush
• The Object Box
• The Reading Tablets
• Puzzle Words in a Nutshell
• Reading and Writing the Montessori Way: Printer Friendly Edition

It is organized by age (three to five), easy to use, and goes at your own pace!

About me, Lisa Nolan: I am a trained and certified Montessori teacher with over 30 years of experience. I've taught Montessori in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1986. I took my Montessori primary training in 1986 at The Maria Montessori School of the Golden Gate in San Francisco with the late headmistress, Ursula Thrush. I took my Montessori elementary (6-9) training in 1988 at The Maria Montessori School of the Golden Gate in San Francisco (with the late headmistress Ursula Thrush) through the University Extension, University of California Berkeley. I received an MA from San Francisco State University in English Literature and Creative Writing.

I am also a Montessori homeschool consultant, a podcaster, a stay-at-home work-at-home mom, a semi-retired blogger, and a recovering indie publisher. I guess you can call me a one-mom operation! Visit me at https://montessorifortheearth.ning.com

I hope you enjoy my Montessori e-book!

~Lisa Nolan

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