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Question 1: How Do We Give The Concept of Grass Letters, Root Letters and Sky Letters To The Child?

The document describes how to introduce the concepts of "grass letters", "sky letters", and "root letters" to children in a Montessori classroom setting. It involves using a movable alphabet, paper with guide lines, and demonstrating which letters fit within or cross the lines. The "grass letters" fit completely within the middle lines, "sky letters" have stems that reach the top line, and "root letters" have tails that reach the bottom line. Introducing these concepts helps children learn the formations of different letters.

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Question 1: How Do We Give The Concept of Grass Letters, Root Letters and Sky Letters To The Child?

The document describes how to introduce the concepts of "grass letters", "sky letters", and "root letters" to children in a Montessori classroom setting. It involves using a movable alphabet, paper with guide lines, and demonstrating which letters fit within or cross the lines. The "grass letters" fit completely within the middle lines, "sky letters" have stems that reach the top line, and "root letters" have tails that reach the bottom line. Introducing these concepts helps children learn the formations of different letters.

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Laiba aslam d16374 (module 6)

Question 1: How do we give the concept of


grass letters, root letters and sky letters to the
child?
 It is never too early or too soon to speak
clearly and precisely to a child to develop
and subsequently improve their spoken and
written language.
 This learning exercise begins at home,
within a facilitative environment created by
the parents or caregivers.
 Reading conducive but fun stories out
loud are an example of what can be done to
help build a child’s vocabulary naturally in a
fun manner, while also instilling a love for
reading and literature within him.
 Ideally, there should be refrain in terms
of teaching kids to read and write before
the age of six/seven, however, in
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preparation for it, certain things may be


taught to create a helpful base.
 This includes introducing children to
sensorial experiences of appropriate
materials as early as the age of three years
old.
 A vast majority of written language is
based in lower case letters, and as such
these should be introduced and taught first
to the child as opposed to capital letters; for
e.g. ‘a’ instead of ‘A’.
During this stage, only sounds are pronounced
instead of words themselves.
Material: -
1. Small Moveable Alphabet (all in the
same color)
2. Large piece of paper with four lines
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3. Top and bottom lines are pink in color


while the rest are aquamarine
Concept of the Grass Letters: The directress
starts off by introducing the concept of the
grass letters to children. She takes out the
letter ‘a’ from the box and places it right
between the first set of lines. She then
demonstrates to them how the letter fits
completely between the middle two lines, and
this is what is referred to as the ‘grass letter’.
She then asks the children to find other letters
that fit between said lines in the same way.
When they have done so with all the possible
letters, she announces that these are known as
the “grass letters in small alphabet”, i.e. a, c, e,
i, m, n, o, r, s, u, v, w, x and z.
Concept of the Sky Letters: Next up, she takes
out the letter ‘b’ and places it at the start of
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the second set of guide lines and demonstrates


to the students that a letter with a stem that
goes up all the way to the pink line is known as
a ‘sky letter’. Again, like earlier, she asks them
to find other letters whereby the stem goes up
to the pink line. When they have successfully
done so with all the possible letters, she
announces that these are known as the “sky
letters in small alphabet”, i.e. b, d, f, h, k, l, and
t.
Concept of the Root Letters: Lastly, she places
the letter ‘j’ on the third set of guide lines as
the children are now ready for this stage. She
explains to them that a letter with a tail going
down to the lower pink line is known as a ‘root
letter’. She then encourages them to find all
such letters with a tail going down. Once they
have successfully done so, she announces that
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such letters are known as the “root letters in


small alphabet”, i.e. g, p, q, j and y.
NOTE:
Grass, sky and root letters are introduced to
children in the Montessori Classrooms through
Three Period Lessons, which is a very useful
method of teaching them not just in the
classroom setting but in the home
environment as well. It is vital that both
directresses and parents encourage the child in
the process of learning to write these groups of
letters on a chalkboard or the marker board
after arranging them out on the mat

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