Montessori: Letter Work

An interesting and fun way to learn letters/phonics for very young, and older children!
This is a great little book for learning letter phonics! It can be used for very children – my son is only 20 months old and has already started learning letters right away! Not sure if you can tell from the stock photos but the letters in this book are raised and textured, so when little ones runs their fingers across them, a sensory experience is created. I use this book in addition to our sandpaper letters and my son loves it! This book reinforces his letter/phonics learning while we are in bed, or other places that the sandpaper letters would be too cumbersome to present. Sometimes he even picks this book from the shelf himself. I highly recommend this book for purchase for young and older children who are learning their letters and phonics. It’s an interesting and fun way to learn!

Almost perfect,
This is a neat little book for learning letters. The pronunciation spelling helps adult to say the letter sound, rather than the letter name, which is a more important prereading skill. I would have given it 5 stars, but I thought the description and pictures were deceptive. From the picture, it looks as though each page is made of two board-pages pasted together, with the top one cut out, so the child can run their finger through the groove that forms the letter. You can see little shading on the letters, that gives this impression. Well, the letters aren’t cut out at all, they’re actually just a slightly matte vs gloss texture, and the shading is just printed on. It is kind of like sandpaper letters, but much more subtle. I think it would be a much better book if it were actually cut out, and something I’d pay more for. I bought it for my 16 month old, because he loves books like the Hungry Caterpillar and sticking his little finger through the holes, so I thought he might enjoy running his finger through the grooves of letters which would provide so many interesting forms to explore and improve his fine motor skills, all while passively familiarizing him with similarities and differences between letters. This is not the case, as I have explained. Although the book would be fine for an older child really learning letters, I think the book would also appeal to much younger children if the letters were cut out–and who wouldn’t want a book with more longevity? I will put this away until he’s a little older, and probably end up buying number work and map work at that time

So good
This is so much better than a typical alphabet book. It teaches the sounds the letters make rather than the names and I love that. I wish I’d have had this as a child learning to read

My sons love this
Love this! Such an affordable option for sandpaper letters. I was trying to teach letters to my son, and we were both frustrated, so I decided to change tracks and try the Montessori way since this book was cheap. I was very unconvinced about the sandpaper letters thing, but I’m no longer a skeptic. I’ve replaced letter lessons with just reading this book once a day, and everyone is enjoying it. Some reviews say the sandpaper isn’t rough enough, but I think it’s just fine. Even my two year old can feel and trace the letters no problem.

Es muy practico y manejable para la edad correspondiente.

Same as my review for the numberwork-This was on my wish list for years but i never bought until my son was really not showing interest in letters or numbers and I started to panic about him struggling in school. Along with activity books its been great for showing him the letters he needs to spell his name and he does actually trace the shape with his fingers. So glad I bought!