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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Went to Montessori through third grade-they just self paced in math such that they were several years ahead when they switched to public. [/quote]

How does literacy instruction work in Montessori? I’m curious about how they teach writing, spelling, phonics. [/quote]

Montessori is not a registered trademark, so there can be wide variation from school to school.

At an AMI or AMS accredited Montessori, Phonics *always* has been front and center. They never did the whole language, balanced literacy, Lucy Calkins crap.

They initially teach the 26 letters but using the sound the letter makes, not the name of the letter. Then they teach two-letter combinations like "ph" and "sh". After Phonics is mastered, they switch to phonetic readers that have a bare minimum of sight words. After student is really solid at phonetic decoding then they introduce more sight words and readers that are not strictly phonetic.

Each student learns at his/her own pace, just as with most Montessori subjects. One child might be reading at 3rd/4th grade level at age 4, while another student in the same room might be just starting reading at age 5. [/quote]

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