At Kensington Montessori, young children are introduced to language in many forms, including stories, letters, poems, and songs. Our rich environment extends the children’s scope for discussion and constantly introduces new ideas and vocabulary. Games, rhyming songs, and poetry build listening skills, and as children show an interest in alphabet sounds and letters, they are guided to progress, step-by-step, through the literacy curriculum. Our literacy curriculum is included working with Montessori insets, Pre reading materials such as matching objects to pictures , sandpaper letters,I Spy with objects or pictures, matching letters to an alphabet board or verbal games identifying initial or end sounds of words.All these strategies are reinforcing the child’s knowledge of letters and sounds in preparation for reading and writing. A child gains word-building skills by working with the large moveable alphabet and begins to analyse words in preparation for reading, writing and spelling. A child becomes aware that there is a sequence to sounds in words.