Knowing All About Children's Sensitive Periods To Support Their Literacy Skills

Children's Sensitive Periods

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Sensitive periods mean that their senses are so much perceptive to certain stimuli and indeed their case this stimulates language this is the reason why children adapt and learn languages and thereby lingo trilingual without any effort. expand their vocabulary by exposing them to different sorts of books and by using descriptive language by teaching them even early grammar you can play a game with your child telling them to go and fetch me. 

Practice Storytelling 

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The book goes and brings me the pencil go and bring me the mat and then when they come back you can tell them depending on their age we call these nouns. these are nouns then you can ask them to walk slowly to walk graciously to jump quickly and then which use them to the adverbs. you can tell them in your giggle can you jump and which use them to verbs. so you can introduce them to objectives by saying go and bring me the red pencil the blue book and then explain to them red blue these are adjectives. 

It doesn't need to be complicated and the children might be three years old or four years old at that stage but for them is interesting and easy to get these concepts. so use any opportunity to read to the different sorts of magazines, books, and things. that you may not think that their child appropriate at the time next one is to practice storytelling and recently did a video about storytelling go and watch it there storytelling is a brilliant activity that boosts the imagination. 

It works on the memory which is very much needed for reading it allows the child to get their point of view of things and to sort of identity with different heroes they can make their own stories and they feel empowered by the fact that they can make their own stories. it builds on their confidence and to introduces them to sequences as well which is so important for literacy. 

Play Different Sorts Of Language Games

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Play different sorts of language games One of the games is Simon Says and if you don't know this game you just say to a child Simon Says put your hands on your head Simon Says jump Simon Says go around. if you don't use Simon Says but you just say do this the child should not do it so in a way it's very much about them listening very actively your instructions and only do the things that Simon Says they should do but introduce them to lots of verbs 

It's a very fun game for children especially if they do it with their friends another game is a memory game you can play with your child. if you have siblings it's even better because you need more people for that you can say I went to the zoo and I saw an elephant and then the next person which is the man that or the other child can say. I went to the zoo and I saw an elephant and a penguin and then the first person needs to repeat the first two animals and add their own and then the fourth needs to repeat the first three animals. 

so the way of this game it's to work on them a memory. memory is very much needed for children to develop reading and writing. because what is writing after all if it's not the memory of how a symbol looks like and now let's go to how to support the motor mechanism for the child to be able to write. 

Motor Mechanism

Hearing Kinesthetic Memory

When we talk about the motor mechanism the things I refer to are the lightness of the touch the dexterity of the wrist the hand-eye coordination so the child can tree and write or copy the word that they're doing. it includes things such as pensive control hearing kinesthetic memory of the letters now in a Montessori environment. it's a beautiful way of teaching children how to write because first of all they are much well prepared before they even go to the literacy shelf, but also because we use some people. so we redraw from the kinesthetic memory of the children by tracing the letter they are having memories their might of how this letter looks like so even if they forget the letter. 

Activities Of Everyday Living

Activities of Everyday Living

The minute they go to the sandpaper letter this memory is retrieved if you think so that you can do it at home to support the motor mechanism involve your child in your activities of everyday living. allowing your child here to eat cleaning to cut to transfer things let's say when you bake to wash the dishes because let's see what's the movement when you wash the dishes to clean with the vacuum. although it may seem harder for them although these activities are at least very daily living and maybe they don't have anything to do with literacy in your mind they do because they strengthen their wrists and quite often they help with dexterity with hand-eye coordination and also gives a lot of opportunity of the child to gain the independence. 

Hone Children Concentration

They need and the concentration that they need when they are practicing something that they need for writing later and for running hard to read concentration is huge in learning. how to read and write and by a larger child to try something many times you helping them to hone their concentration. 

To Support The Hand Is By Playing A Game

Another thing you can do to support the hand is to play a game which is called let's take your pen to a walk and then the pen goes to a walk climb stairs and then goes down and up and there are a bumpy road different things you can incorporate at home. very easily is asking your child to trace letters or to trace small lines and you can use a tracing paper for that it helps them not only with the concentration but also with the lightness of the touch and with the movement of their wrists dough circles and fill out the circles you don't have to buy anything complicated or anything expensive to practice.

These things at home that's it from me. guys, I hope that this helps you to support your child in their emerging pre-literacy skills and if you have more ideas or if there are things that you practice at home with your children. I would love to hear that so please make sure you leave me a comment below let me know if you want me to do more easily those for example for different areas whether it's Rosario or it's mathematics and I'll be quite happy to do that now that I have so much deeper understanding of the Montessori philosophy. thank you so much if you like this video please give me a thumbs up share it with your friends and make sure that you come up on my channel next week as well bye you Montessori.

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