Miss Rhonda's Readers

The stories that go with the shell are fascinating!

Children love them!

Have you seen the beautiful rock, shell and fossil sets?

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Rhonda’s Readers will be available at this event!

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Today is the birthday of the late Gabriel García Márquez who, although winning the Nobel Prize in literature as an adult, struggled to read as a child.

That is, until a different kind of school opened in his hometown that used a different kind of method for reading, i.e. phonics.

The young Gabriel began learning to sound out letters (vs rote memorization of their names) and he quickly became enamored with books, finding one that "absorbed me in a very intense way."

And this experience, among others, shaped the rest of his life. As García Márquez puts it: "There is not a line in one of my books that does not have its origin in my childhood. During the first eight years of my life, I lived the experiences that later made up my poetic and literary creations. ... I would say that all my work has its origins in the early years of childhood."

So what was the schooling that García Márquez attended during such a formative time in his life, in which he says "studying was like playing"?

Montessori.

And later in life, García Márquez was a vocal supporter of the Montessori approach: "I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life."

🙏❤️

-photo: García holding a friend's grandson
-from https://www.montessorieducation.com/blog/gabriel-garcia-marquez-on-montessori

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AMS Virtual Conference this weekend. All books, cards and science are on sale. Use code AMSVIRTUAL at missrhondasreaders.com. I miss seeing you all.

A moment in time in our class today. Lots of energy as we approach the end of the school year.

Check out Miss Rhonda's Reader's Phonogram pouch set on our shop: Phonogram Pouch Set https://etsy.me/2VDjnkb

Reading Miss Rhonda’s Readers Set 1 and 2. Real stories for real kids. Available at missrhondasreaders.com.

Stop by at booth L201 at the AMI conference in Washington D.C. .

Reading her first book... Pink Pig from Missrhondasreaders.com. Always an exciting moment no matter how long we teach.