How Do You Teach Reading Using The Montessori Secret Box Lesson?
The montessori secret box lesson is great practice lesson for beginning readers who are relatively comfortable with sounding words out, but need to continue practicing their reading skills. Secret box lessons are usually color coded, with pink boxes containing simple, phonetic three letter words and blue boxes containing more advanced words including four and five letter words with phonograms. The words are written on folded pieces of paper, and these pieces of paper can be pretty or exotic origami papers to make the secret aspect of the lesson a little more apparent. Have the child sit at a table. The first time through, you will sit with the child. Once he is comfortable with the lesson, however, he will sit by himself. This also enhances the atmosphere of secrecy that accompanies this lesson. Remove a slip of paper from the box. You can make an elaborate production of this or not, as you wish and depending on the child’s temperment. Read the word on the slip of paper. While you are
