A Montessori Alphabet Book – New Release!

Good morning!

I have some exciting news to share today – my husband and I have just released a Montessori alphabet book, available for purchase here!

(We’ve since released a cursive edition here as well!)

This was a labor of love that we’ve been working on for months and I’m super excited that it’s ready to share.

So what is a Montessori alphabet book?

I’ve written about it in much more detail here but there are three main things that set this apart from other abc books:

1. Phonetic Sounds: Each page features a word beginning with the phonetic sound of the featured letter. Montessori teaches the phonetic alphabet first because it’s much more helpful than letter names for learning to read.
2. Lower Case Letters: Similarly, Montessori presents lower case letters before capital letters as children will encounter many more lower case than capital letters in their early reading work.
3. Simple, Real Life Images: This Montessori alphabet book features a single photographic image for each word. Montessori always uses realistic images with young children to help them learn about the real world. Having a single word and image for each letter also helps children focus, rather than being overwhelmed by many competing images.

The Story Behind This Book:

When our son James was a young toddler, he became fascinated by letters. Someone gave him a Duplo set with letters on it and he constantly asked us what each letter was. I wanted a Montessori alphabet book to encourage his emerging curiosity with letters but couldn’t find one that I loved for his age. So I made one on Shutterfly! He loved it but it never occurred to me to try to make a book for other children.

Then my sister in law wrote this beautiful sailing abc book and told us all about the process – we immediately thought of creating a revamped version of our Montessori abc book to share with other families!

My husband loves photography and already had images for many of the letters. He took photos to match the rest of the words and this Montessori book for toddlers (or babies) was born!

We got the proof copy last week and both James (4 yrs) and Lilah (20 mos) have loved it so far! James knows all of the phonetic sounds but enjoys trying to sound out the words. Lilah is fascinated by the letters and has already picked up some of the sounds just by us casually reading the book to her a few times.

If you’re interested please read more about the book and about the Montessori approach for how to teach reading here! Also, please don’t hesitate to reach out at montessoriishmom (at) gmail (dot) com, or by leaving a comment on this post.

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