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How is language encouraged in; Montessori prepared environment?

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1 Question for DMT 106- Language: Language is the ability to understand speech and a desire to convey one’s feelings and thoughts. The learning of language is truly the child’s most remarkable intellectual achievement and is amazingly accomplished rapidly in a very short time span. “By mere living and without any conscious effort the individual absorbs from the environment even a complex culture like language” - E. Hainstock, The Essential Montessori. – Pg. 81 Since the child builds himself from what is around him, the environment becomes an important factor. The environment must be prepared, aiding in the process of language development and support the child’s expanding consciousness. How is language encouraged in; …show more content…

“Montessori children typically do not remember learning to read, nor does the teacher remember teaching any particular one. The environment is so designed that all activities feed naturally towards the development of the skill required for reading, and thus reading is experienced a part of the process of living. - Montessori - A Modern Approach, Pg. 122 When a child enters a Montessori Classroom, it provides him an orderly environment, in which materials are all arranged on shelves that are at his eye level. These materials are arranged according to activities in which they are introduced to a child from left to right and accordingly in different coloured trays or baskets to indicate the activity. The materials are real and not fake, these materials are what the child see not just in his classroom, but also in the environment in his home and other place. Practical Life Exercises (PLE) provide the foundation in which a child can start developing his language skills. When we see the first activities that involve spooning; the child learns how to first hold the spoon with his right three dominant finger. And why does the directress make it very clear that only three dominant fingers have to be used

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