
This board book along with its companion Number Work brings popular Montessori pedagogy into book format for the first time Montessori students learn to write before they learn to read so the process is driven by their own words & thoughts before those of others Letters are taught first as sounds (instead of names) & alphabet tiles encourage children to trace each letter with their finger This book honours that tradition by emulating the standard classroom material with touchable traceable letters & providing parents or caregivers the Montessori directed language to encourage understanding The alphabet is introduced by shape (rather than in standard alphabetical order) & by sound (rather than name) providing young children with an alternative way a Montessori way to learn their letters