
Stories and books entice our children. Montessori knew that young children yearn to unlock the mysterious code of language. They build vocabulary at an alarming rate, listening to everything around them. They delight in sounds, in rhyme, in word play as their ears become attuned and they learn to verbally manipulate the language themselves. This is where they begin to trace an A, with a finger, in sand, in shaving cream - that muscle memory sticks. They begin to hear, and see A where ever they go. They have the power to crack the code!