Description

In traditional grammatical terms, men and women; or male and female; were always seen as binary genders; i.e. there were no more than 2 genders.  In todays’ world, this may no longer be true.  However, to enable the Child to understand gender classification, it is important for them to learn the traditional norms of determining the Masculine and Feminine of different groups of people.  The individuals in each group of people may wish to be known by a non-binary pronoun, but as a group, the nouns classifying the group, are still valued.

Examples of the Masculine and Feminine Words

Features of the Masculine and Feminine

• the direct objective of this material:
  • Child/ren understand the function of gender classification words
• indirectly, the Child/ren:
  • improve their vocabulary
  • learn how to read with understanding
  • how to use masculine and feminine nouns in a sentence
• aligned to the Montessori language curriculum
• the words grow in complexity as the Child/ren works through them

Contents of the Masculine and Feminine

• 1 control sheet
• 2 header cards
• 20 word cards
• transparent, plastic A6 envelope to store and display the cards on the shelves – 18cm x 13cm x 0.5cm / (7″ x 5″ x ¼”)

Further Reading and Resources