Description
This material is part of the Early Childhood Montessori language arts curriculum. Figure/Ground is a pre-reading skill exercise that helps children make sense of their environment, understand language, and use language. Visual perception skills allow children to understand the objects and forms she sees in her daily sensory experiences. The ability to perceive differences in the shapes of letters is the foundation of learning written language. The material consists of two sets of cards: figure (black objects in the foreground) and ground (black background).
Children match the corresponding pairs of cards.
Contents
Digital Matching Activities
24 animals cards, 12 pairs represented:
bear, dog, chick,giraffe, elephant, rooster, kangaroo, heron, horse, rabbit, monkey, rhinoceros
24 instruments cards, 12 pairs represented:
violin, drum, trumpet, piano, guitar, harp, recorder, French horn, bassoon, oboe, tambourine, maracas
Skills
-develops visual discrimination
-develops background to foreground relationship
-prepares for reading/writing
Prior Knowledge Recommended
One-to-one correspondence work (object to object, object to picture, picture to picture)
Recommended Age
3
Subjects
Figure/Ground – Animals, Figure/Ground – Musical Instruments