Differences between Medical and Montessori in language development:
| Medical approach | listening→ | speaking→ | reading→ | writing |
| Montessori approach | listening→ | speaking→ | writing→ | reading |
In Medical approach:
“You can’t write what you can’t read”. That is considered how the human brain’s neural circuits work. In addition, “You can’t speak what you can’t listen.
In Montessori approach:
“Reading” is understanding the meaning of mass of letters, so recognizing shapes of the letters are not considered as “reading”. Writing” is a motor, which is a stage of development prior of to “reading” for that reason.
Thoughts: Either order is fine if the end result is language development.
Reminder: In order to see the exact level of the child’s language development, language or developmental assessments should be taken by specialists.