Description

What are Sandpaper Letters for?

Children learn through all their senses, and not necessarily in a linear fashion.  Each activity that they touch, will pass knowledge to the Child, through their senses.  The Double Sandpaper Letters – Print, takes children beyond the visual recognition of letters, and into a deeper understanding through the sensorial impression, using the tactile senses.

The letters in this activity are:

Features of the Double Sandpaper Letters – Print

• the direct objective for the Child;
  • to introduce the Child to the new sound (phoneme) that is made when two letters are put together
• indirectly, the Child will;
  • remember the shapes of the letters through muscular and visual memories
  • embed the shape of these letters in the Child’s memory muscle, by continuously tracing the letters
  • be introduced to the non-phonetic aspects of reading

Contents of the Double Sandpaper Letters

• 17 green wooden boards
  • each board has 2 letters of the alphabet, made from a roughened ‘sandpaper’ textured print
• a birch plywood box keep the letters in place

Size:  27cm x 21cm x 10cm

Related Products

• The Phonogram Word Lists
• The Sandpaper Letters
• The Montessori Green Reading Series
• Grade R Reader

Further Reading and Resources

“Tracing the letter, in the fashion of writing, begins the muscular education which prepares for writing…Touching the letters and looking at them at the same time, fixes the image more quickly through the cooperation of the senses.  Later, the two facts separate; looking, becomes reading; touching becomes writing..” The Montessori Method.

How do Sandpaper Letters Work? – ReachforMontessori.com