During the past few months, we have explored the development of both decoding sounds and language comprehension. As a review, decoding is the ability to apply knowledge of letter-sound relationships to correctly pronounce written words. Language comprehension is the ability to derive meaning from ...
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School News
February Is the Month of Love and Chinese New Year
What happened in the Phoenixville Primary classroom during the month of February? Besides the children working as industrious bees, we celebrated Chinese New Year on February 1, 2022 and Valentine’s Day. In this blog, take a look at some amazing photos from our classroom during the month of February ...
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How Children Learn Language Comprehension to Become Better Readers
Once a child learns the majority of their letter sounds by decoding they also need to learn Language Comprehension, which is the ability to derive meaning from spoken words. It has nothing to do with the actual written letters on a page, but how a child’s oral language ...
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Holiday Happenings in the Elementary Classroom
Our Elementary community had a busy fall celebrating and learning about holidays.
Rosh Hashanah
We were treated to delicious Challah, hand braided by Mrs. Paseltiner, at the time of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. She taught us how the intricate braid is woven with bread dough.
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Areas of a Montessori Toddler Classroom Series: Language
During the first three years of life, the child is engaged in the conscious acquisition of language, which includes building concepts and understanding the organization of sounds, words, and structure through concrete experiences. This means we are always aiming to fill our classroom space with ...
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Elementary Endeavors
The children of the Elementary Class were busy this late fall gelling into a true community of learners. We are focusing on establishing classroom and individual routines that will facilitate our progress as a cooperative body and each person’s growth as an independent learner.
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Create a Montessori Environment at Home
In this article, I elaborate on how to create a home environment that supports your child’s learning development and aligns with the school. The intention is not to replicate the classroom, but to create a home environment that supports your child’s learning to be consistent with what he/she learns ...
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How Children Learn to Decode Sounds into Words to Become Better Readers
Before children are even introduced to the written language on paper they must become aware of the oral language they need to identify the written sounds. Oral language came well before written language in human history. Humans have been speaking for over 200,000 years, yet the earliest forms ...
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