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Montessori Reading & Writing Tutorial: Vocabulary Enrichment - Emerging Readers

Enthusiastic conversational and musical deep dive into vocabulary by topic: improve reading, vocabulary & spelling - and spark creative writing! Study a wide range of topics. For enrichment-ready, ESL, homeschooled & neurodiverse learners
Rachael Gerhard - Montessori Specialist
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What's included

Meets on Demand
schedule meetings as needed
45 mins
per session
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Homework
1 hour per week. 💜 Homework is optional but encouraged! 🖨️ I provide 3 PDF dotted-font word lists & lyric sheets for guided writing and visual copying, posted before each session 📝 Complete the lists on an iPad with a stylus pencil, or print the PDFs and complete with a marker, pen or pencil 🖼️ 📖 Use the 16 BINGO game pictures & a list of facts about each one to spark creative projects and further study

Class Experience

US Grade Kindergarten - 2
Intermediate Level
💜This tutorial is designed for readers who are learning to write long words such as 'monarch butterfly' and 'parallelogram.' They've memorized many digraphs (letter pairs that make a new sound) and they know many sight words. Each session aims to encourage additional fact-finding and writing after class. 

💜 CLASS CONTENT: Each 45-minute session includes
via screen-sharing: 
1️⃣ 🎶 I sing a children's song with live autoharp accompaniment. The lyrics are provided in dotted font, the song introduces the topic of study for the session. 

2️⃣ 🖼️ I introduce 8 colorful photos for a topic such as "jungle mammals" (see list below) focusing on names, spellings and descriptions.

3️⃣ 📝 Using the dotted-font word list provided, I demonstrate writing each word twice while spelling the letter names.

4️⃣ 📖 I encourage the learner to read each label, describe and discuss each picture, and observe as I match the label with a picture. 

5️⃣ 🖼️ 📝 📖 We repeat the same process with another 8 photos: introduction, writing, reading and discussion. 

6️⃣ 🎉 I guide a fun cooperative BINGO game, emphasizing picture description, conversation and correct spelling. 

😊 My teaching style is warm, attentive and patient. This tutorial is similar to a Montessori classroom experience; an individual lesson with shared enthusiasm for vocabulary, letter sounds, spelling, conversation, and learning to read fluently! 

💜 Each session focuses on reading and writing 16 words in one category
📅 Lessons in 2024 
📃 Days of the Week 
📃Months of the Year 
📃 Naming Feelings 
📃 Popular Pets 
📃 Relatives  
📃 Four Seasons 
📃 Number Names
📃 Sports
📃 Colors 
📃 Shapes - 2D & 3D Names
📃 Yummy Fruits 
📃 Delicious Vegetables 
📃 Vertebrates & Invertebrates 
📃 Honeybees & Other Pollinators
📃 Butterflies & Moths 
📃 Mammals of North America
📃 Mammals‌ ‌of‌ ‌Jungles‌ ‌
📃 Grasslands‌ ‌& Mountain‌ ‌Mammals‌ ‌
📃 Ocean‌ ‌Mammals‌ ‌
📃 Fish‌ ‌- oceanic and fresh water
📃 Aquatic‌ ‌Birds‌ ‌- from penguins to puffins 
📃 Birds‌ ‌of‌ ‌the‌ ‌Forest‌ ‌&‌ ‌Jungle‌
📃 Birds‌ ‌of‌ ‌the‌ ‌Mountains‌ ‌and‌ ‌Ground-Dwelling Birds ‌
📃 Dogs - real breeds in history & fiction
📃 ‌Reptiles‌ ‌
📃 Amphibians‌ ‌
📃 Air ‌&‌ ‌Water‌ ‌Transportation‌ ‌- from blimps to sailboats 
📃 Land ‌Vehicles‌ ‌- from unicycles to freight trains
📃 ‌Construction‌ ‌Vehicles‌ - road building ‌and more 
📃 Simple Machines - the wheel & axle and more!
📃 Famous Places - USA 
📃 Famous Places - Global

💜 Enroll any time - the content is not cumulative

🧑🏽‍💻MONTESSORI READ & WRITE CLASSES:
🤍 Intro Level "Montessori Phonics: Letter Sounds & Easy Handwriting" (self-paced)
🩷 Level 1 "Phonics - CVC Words for Beginners" (group or 1:1) Ages 3 - 6 
❤️ Level 2 "Phonics Fun - Blends for Beginners" (group or 1:1) Ages 3 - 6 
🧡 Level 3 "Phonics & Intro to Digraphs" (group or 1:1) Ages 4 - 6 
💛 Read Books Aloud & Memorize Sight Words (1:1 only) Ages 5 - 7
💚 Level 4 "Mastering Digraphs for Emerging Readers" (group or 1:1) Ages 5 - 7 
💙 Level 5 "Word Study for Emerging Readers" (group or 1:1) Ages 5 - 7 
💜 Level 6 "Vocabulary Enrichment for Emerging Writers" (group or 1:1) Ages 5 - 7
Learning Goals
Learners will: 
🏅 improve their reading fluency, spelling, vocabulary and description skills 
🏅 understand the meanings of words in 32 categories
🏅 feel inspired to learn more about each topic after class
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Other Details

Supply List
💜 OPTIONAL PRINTABLES: For each session, learners receive: 
🥇 2 PDFs of dotted-font handwriting lists with 8 words each for tracing and visual copying
🥈 A colorful BINGO game PDF with 16 photos that match the word lists
🥉 Lyrics for a song/poem in a dotted-font format for handwriting practice
🏅 A list of facts or little stories for each vocabulary word
External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
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Teacher expertise and credentials
Bachelor's Degree in Music or Theatre or Arts from University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA
📜 Certified Early Childhood Educator, Lead Montessori Teacher and Music Specialist for 28 years
📜 Bachelor of Music Education
📜 Certified by the most rigorous Montessori training program in North America (Association Montessori Internationale) 
📜 TESOL certified

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Ages: 5-7

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