MONTESSORI TEACHER ALBUMS – Children’s House (3-6) – Scripts
Scripts
- Choosing a Script:
- Dominant handwriting script in the culture
- Places Used
- Sandpaper Letters
- Moveable Alphabet (can also have an alternate)
- Writing by the directress
- Writing by the child
- Advantages of Cursive Script
- Flowing, unbroken strokes
- Few strokes retraced
- Words are more distinct visually
- Used for personal written communication
- More easily mastered ages 3-6 years
(sensitive periods, Absorbent mind, tendencies, and flexible hand)
- Leads to easy recognition of print in reading matter.
- Print or Manuscript
- Many stops and start strokes
- Some difficult connecting points and retracing of strokes
- Confuse b and d
- Modified Cursive
- Usually a combination of cursive and print
- Some separate strokes and some connected ones
- Some retracing of strokes
- Mastery of the Chosen Script
- Indirect preparation
- Direct preparations
- Practicing (by writing, not copying)
- Perfection (legible, beautiful, unique)
- Add Capital Letters
- Visual recognition
- Sandpaper letters (visual and muscular impressions)
- Other Scripts:
- Master the dominant script (during 3-6 years)
- Add others (during 6-12 years)
- Older child interested in other scripts and their origins
- Cursive Ö print or modified
- Others (italic, gothic, Roman Numerals, etc.)
- Sandpaper letters are helpful for all
- Pen and ink