Digital Object NAMTA Journal 26/2 09 Process Writing: Finding Flow in Adolescent Self-Expression Describes one teacher's approach to process writing, a mainstay for Montessori adolescent classrooms. The premise of the method is that everyone has the natural potential to write and that the emergence of the inner voice must be nurtured by extended…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 26/2 07 The Historical Genesis of the Parts of Speech This essay explores the history of the parts of speech and how individual acquisition of grammar may recapitulate history's discovery of the parts of speech and their related patterns. This history of grammar has been incorporated into a program called …
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 26/2 08 Cosmic Sense, Sensibility, and Written Expression: From Childhood to Adolescence Compares and connects the cosmic awareness emerging in the elementary classroom to adolescent cosmic sensibility embedded in the experience of the Hershey Montessori Farm School. Provides examples of students' poetry to support Montessori's concept of…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 26/2 06 Evolving Language: From Child to Human Species Examines similarities between human evolution of language and the development of child's language, including the gradual building of sentence, the use of gestures, and the introduction of symbols. Discusses principles of human uniqueness, brain development,…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 26/2 04 Dr. Montessori's Approach to Language in the Second Phase of the Child's Development Discusses exercises enabling teachers to help 6-year-olds complete the path to total reading and spontaneous writing. The foundation of the exercises is to help children analyze words into sounds; relate the symbols of the alphabet with the sounds using…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 26/2 05 Homo Loquens: Language in the Context of Cosmic Education Discusses language in the context of human development and civilization, examining a limitless field of studies and observations including the absorbent mind, the acquisition of language and grammatical structure, the linguistic capacity for abstract thought,…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 26/2 03 Literary Approaches for the Child Under Six Discusses the first plane of development in the context of language work of the age 3-6 classroom. Examines the connections between spoken and written language and explains how literary images reflected in prose and poetry all contribute to a child's…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 26/2 02 Language and Developing Brain Discusses the centers of language in the brain and the critical period for language acquisition. Explains developmental milestones of language development--receptive language, babbling, short phrases, full sentences--in the context of brain development…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 26/2 01 Language Acquisition Discusses pre-linguistic and linguistic stages of language acquisition that are part of a continuum of receptivity and communication every child experiences in the first 3 years of life. Suggests parents assist language development by being sympathetic to…
