EDM 528 - Montessori Language Curriculum

(Cr: 3)

This course will include the presentation of materials and activities in the area of language development as they related to children 2-1/2 through 6 years of age. Specific emphasis will be placed on Dr. Montessori’s theories I this area, both from an historical and contemporary perspective. Presentations of language materials to enhance language, pre-reading and reading skills, and prewriting and writing skills in the young child will be combined with guided practice labs for this curriculum area.