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Evaluation of a literacy
intervention
Montessori Writing - ‘The method
of spontaneous writing’
— Rachel Hendron

What is the literacy intervention
intending to teach/develop?
Montessori education focuses on ‘assisting the natural
devel...

Writing to become an effective community
member
• Montessori developed a holistic method for child
development based on cl...

Relationship between reading
and writing
• Montessori differentiates between total reading (full
comprehension of the mean...

What is the theoretical rationale
for teaching/developing this skill?
• Montessori breaks down each skill offered to the
c...

Four indirect preparations for literacy
Montessori broke writing and reading down into these sets of
skills;
1. Developmen...

Montessori Pedagogy
• Montessori teaching is always holistic, literacy isn’t
a skill taught separately from other skills, ...

• Montessori reasons that the child who is able to
write her own thoughts will spontaneously become
interested in reading ...

1. Development the mind/body.

2. Being able to make the
shapes of the letters.

3. Phonemic knowledge of the
letter sounds.

4. Mechanical reading to total
reading.

What is the empirical evidence for
the effectiveness of the intervention?
Part 1
• It is very difficult to find large scal...

Evidence for integrated reading and
writing and phonic based learning.
• ‘Research shows that students will not apply thei...

• This idea corresponds with the view that 'the acquisition
of phoneme awareness and the acquisition of alphabetic
literac...

• 'Phonics needs to be combined with other essential
instructional components to create a complete and
balanced reading pr...

Part 2
I do not have the scope to go into a full review of the
rationale behind each of the four indirect preparations
for...

1. Development the mind/body.
From the development of the hand, movements,
nervous system, intellect, will power and engag...

2. Being able to make the shapes of the
letters.
From being able to make the shapes of the letters I
shall investigate ben...

3. Phonemic knowledge of the letter sounds.
• From the teaching of phonemic knowledge of the letter
sounds I shall conside...

4. Mechanical reading to total reading.
To investigate the transition from mechanical reading to total reading
I will cons...

What are the implications for
practice?
1. There is a great deal of support from more recent neuroscience that we
should b...

Print or cursive? Here I agree with Berlinger (2012) the child who is
aware of both print and cursive as possible styles o...

However, these principles are in fact often
not followed in many so-called Montessori
environments.
• ‘Montessori’ environ...

Montessori is a total approach to
development, the literacy aspect is not
effective as an add-on to other approaches.
The ...

The Montessori approach requires adults
with a commitment to the totality of the
philosophy.
Due to the philosophical natu...

Montessori literacy provides an opportunity
for children who are naturally ready to write
effortlessly. It does not guaran...

Limitations of this presentation
• This presentation is small in scale and has resulted in
generalisations which I believe...

Conclusion
• I have taught several groups of students using the Montessori
approach to literacy. If find that the opportun...

References;
• Berniniger V. (2012) ‘Mind’s Eye: The case for continued handwriting instruction in the 21st
century. Nation...

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