1. Grammar Lessons Presented by: Nannette Schultz Assisted by: Rebecca Blanco and Marie Pousson Dodson Montessori Magnet School HISD February 22, 2012

2. Remember Oral Grammar Games • Use the classroom environment • Use the “farm” or other miniature environments • Use the outdoor environment • Revisit your Montessori language manual for presentations of Function of Words: 1. Oral 2. Written (symbolized and transposed) 3. Prepared slips

3. These 22 Prepared Lessons Are: • Adaptations from prepared slip lesson lessons • Associations of symbols to parts of speech • Bridges from concrete use of children’s own language to abstract terminology of grammar • Presented to young children with an “impression” of the part of speech, but they may not yet fully understand the function

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5. Nouns: Environment