Description
This material is part of the Early Childhood Montessori language arts curriculum. The Montessori approach to early literacy consists of four series of incremental materials: The Pink Series, The Lilac Series, The Blue Series, and the Green Series. The Pink Series contains consonant-vowel-consonant words with short vowels (a-e-i-o-u.) “Initial Sound Picture Cards” is part of the Pink Series.
The Pink series is introduced through the 6 following incremental and concurrent steps:
1. Phonic Three-Part Cards
2. Initial Sounds Memory Cards
3. Phonic Picture Cards (or objects) with Moveable Alphabet
4. Phonic Picture Cards and CVC Word Cards
5. Phonic Booklets with Picture and Word Cards
6. Phonic Word Lists with CVC Words
This material provides the young child with indirect preparation for reading. The activity is not sequential, but is present parallely to Phonic three-part Cards over a six month period.
Contents
Digital Matching Cards
8 pictures per each vowels and consonants, 227 cards total
a – apple, ax, avocado, add, accident, Africa, alligator, afghan
b – bag, banana, beater, bed, bib, bud, bun, bus
c – can, cap, carrots, cat, cob, cog, cotton, cups
d – deer, dog, donut, door, dolls, daisies, dice, duck
e – elk, eggs, empty, elastic, elevator, elephant, endocarp, elbow
f – fan, feather, fig, fin, fish, foot, fork, fox
g – garage, gas, gears, goat, gorilla, guitar, gate, garden
h – ham, hammer, helicopter, hem, hen, hip, hog, hook
igloo, injury, inflate, insect, ill, inch, ibis, instruments
j – jack o’lantern, jacks, jam, jeep, jet, juggle, jump, jellyfish
k – kangaroo, keg, key, kayak, kitchen, kite, kiwi, koala
l – ladder, lava, lemon, lid, lion, lip, lobster, log
m – mad, map, mail, maracas, moose, mud, marbles, magnet
n – nail, needle, nest, newspaper, nickel, nine, numbers, nuts
o – olives, octagon, osprey, obelisk, ostrich, otter, ox, octopus
p – pan, panda, pen, pig, pin, pineapple, pod, pup
q(qu) – quail, quarter, queen, quilt
r – rod, red, rib, rug, race, rabbit, rake, rat
s – sailboat, seven, sod, sun, submarine, seal, saw, safe
t – tag, tan, ten, tin, tomato, top, tank, taxi
u – umbrella, underwear, umpire, ugly, udder, ulna, up, under
v – vase, violin, volcano, vineyard, vegetables, vitamins, veins, vowels
w – windmill, wagon, web, wave, window, wing, waterfall, waffle
x – xylophone, Xenia, xylem, xebec
y – yak, yarn, yoyo, yam
z – zebra, zero, zipper, zither
Skills
-encoding
-reading/writing
Prior Knowledge Recommended
Sandpaper Letters
Metal Insets
“I Spy…” Initial Sound with Objects/Pictures
Handwriting: grain, chalkboard, lined paper
Recommended Age
2-3
Subjects
E-D-F-R-S, A-M-N-P-T, I-B-C-H-L, O-G-J-K-W, U-Q-V-X-Y-Z