The age of 4,5 to 6 years, the Italian teacher Maria Montessori considered the best time to master the skills of reading and writing.
The age of 4,5 to 6 years, the Italian teacher Maria Montessori considered the best time to master the skills of reading and writing. It is during this period that most children are irresistibly drawn to letters, they write tirelessly, and parents, as a rule, miss these amazing moments, not attaching importance to children’s doodles.
Later, around the age of 7, learning this skill loses its spontaneity and turns into an uninteresting and unloved job for the child. Maria Montessori proposed a method by which each child independently (but with the support of adults) can master writing, and then reading. Elena Khiltunen, a well-known “pedagogical” journalist and creator of the first Montessori school in Russia, tells in a fascinating and accurate way about her key ideas in her new book. In addition, she publishes her diary of observations of her grandchildren, aged 4 and 6, who mastered writing using the Montessori method.
Genesis, 144 p.