We use many Montessori materials but one of the most useful is the language series.  We are working on the pink and blue series at the same time right now.  They are boxes filled with words with matching pictures as well as rhyming boxes and sentence boxes.  We use the series with handwriting without tears as we will write the word on chalkboards (lined) after matching them in the pink series.  We then write the word on paper with pencil.  Sometimes we use the moveable alphabet (another montessori material) instead of writing.

• Maggie /v/ rhyming box
• Lily /a/ rhyming box
• Sentence box #1