Sand Paper Letter Reading Folders Example Dictionary Key Symbol others ai ai brain ai (long vowel A) ay say ay ei vein ei a-e mate a-e ee ee see ee (long vowel E) ea read ea ie field ie y mummy …
Introducing Reading
Reading is an ability which develops during the Sensitive Period for Language, from prenatal hearing to the ‘Explosion into Reading’, around the age of five. Reading is an extension of the development of Vocabulary, the child discovers how a known word looks in graphic form after she has become a fluent speaker and has benefited …
Further Reading Activities
Reading Analysis Simple sentences Stage 1, Levels I to VI When the child can perform actions with sequential commands (Extensions to the Verb) the child is able to comprehend sentences which are not in the imperative mood (not just direct commands) Material Description: There are red circles and blank,black arrows and …
Additional Writing Supports
Writing Stages Strategies to help the child who is struggling to come to writing. Writing happens when the child is approximately four to four and a half years old. By this time all the various indirect technical and intellectual preparations have matured and fused. All that is needed to set off the child’s …
Written Language
Introduction to Writing Writing is the graphic expression of spoken language, a spontaneous and explosive early developmental activity, if the necessary Indirect Preparations are made. We write in response to our need to be understood by others – over time and space. Mechanical Writing is a preparation for Creative Writing and Reading. It is the …
Oral Language
Enrichment of Vocabulary Introduces oral activities while encouraging order, orientation, and therefore independence by ensuring the child knows the names of the objects in the environment, especially the names of things which sound or physically are similar. Also use group games, teach verbs by giving the activities name, adjectives through sensorial activities and nouns when …
Introduction to Language
Language can be defined as, ‘a system of communication consisting of sounds, words and grammar, or the system of communication used by the people of a particular country or profession’ (Cambridge Online Dictionaries, Cambridge University Press, on 10th Nov 2011 at http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/language?q=language) Language is a set of abstract symbols which the group, through convention, uses …
Introduction to Mathematics
“The abstract science of number, quantity, and space, either as abstract concepts (pure mathematics), or as applied to other disciplines such as physics and engineering (applied mathematics)” Oxford Dictionary of English 3rd Edition, OUP, 2010 Mathematics makes it possible to observe, consider and appreciate parts and aspects of entities with precision, to make comparisons and establish …
Group 1: Numbers 1 to 10
Arithmetic of Variables (Group 1) The Number Rods, Sand Paper Cyphers and Number Rods and Cards form the first half of the Maths Materials for Group 1, in which the ‘Addition of Variables’ takes place The Number Rods The Number Rods are similar to the Red Rods, only here they are rendered countable by blue …
Group 2: Decimal System
The Decimal System (Group Two) The decimal system is a numeral system which organises and classifies numerical quantities into different hierarchies of units. In the Casa it is offered when the child can count to ten with complete understanding; with the knowledge of the symbols 1-9 and can recognise zero. The child is given the …