![]() ![]() The Montessori Crosswords app activities encourage children to perceive each sound they hear in a word and then match that sound to a particular letter or digraph (2 letter combinations, such as “ch” or “oa”). Her deductions have been verified by researchers, too (for instance, see here). Montessori reasoned that spelling by sounds is the doorway to both reading and writing. Plus, the variety and fun it brings to instruction is priceless!ĭr. Indeed, the entire app is a digital version of our Reading Simplified activity, “ Build It.” These are the pivotal principles that undergird Reading Simplified and we’ve written about them previously, as in the post, Integrate, Don’t Isolate and Don't Start at the Very Beginning. Phonemic (individual sound-based) segmentation (“cat” = /c/ /a/ /t/).How our written language system or code works-AKA the alphabetic principle (letters are pictures or spellings of sounds in words),.This approach integrates many essential skills young readers need, simultaneously teaching: Inspired by the approach began by physician and revolutionary educator Maria Montessori nearly 100 hundred years ago, the Montessori Crosswords app guides beginning, struggling, or developing readers to spell words with the support and emphasis of the sounds of the letter-sounds. The Old Beginnings of the Montessori Crosswords App “ Perhaps a little too excited,” you non-reading-geeks might be thinking?īut all of my trial-and-error can serve your teaching purposes, starting here with the massively useful iOS and android app, Montessori Crosswords ($3.99). So, when I encounter an app that’s effective, fun, and easy-to-use, I get very excited. Not even worth 5 minute’s of a child’s time. While hundreds of apps have been created for the teaching of reading, most of them are instructionally so poor, that after testing them, I simply delete them from my phone or iPad. ![]()
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