The Word Study is a core language arts material for all Montessori elementary classrooms.
It can be purchased as a complete set or in four (4) individual sets.
Compounds, Roots/Suffixes, Prefixes/Roots
Word Study Set #1: (Card Sets A – F)
900+ cards with 60 activities
Antonyms, Synonyms, Homonyms (Homographs & Homophones)
Word Study Set #2: (Card Sets G – L)
1700+ cards with 60 activities
Mechanics: Capital Letters, Abbreviations, Sentences vs. Phrases, Apostrophes, Possessives, Commas, Quotation Marks
Word Study Set #3 (Letters M – R)
1100+ cards with 60 activities
Mechanics: Classification, Alphabetic Order, Guide Words, Dictionary Usage, Thesaurus
Word Study Set #4 (Letters S – X)
1100+ cards with 60 activities
Complete set is 5,000 cards with 240 separate activities.*
*The activities involve laying the label cards on the work space, and matching the cards in such a way as to create compound, suffix and prefix words. Matches are also made with antonyms, synonyms, homophones and homographs.
*The activities call for the child to identify capitals, periods, apostrophes, commas and quotations. The activities allow the child to practice classification, alphabetizing, the use of guide words for research, dictionary skill building and thesaurus usage.
The Word Study is also known as “The Montessori Skyscraper”, “The Sky Scrapper”, “The California Game”, “The Montessori Word Game”.
Includes Control Book
Click here to download the Record Keeping Sheet for the Word Study.
Laminated and cut, ready to use
Please also note that, since this set contains 5000 cards, there is the possibility that you find yourself missing a few cards—-either due to a collating and packaging error on our part or from the sorting and shuffling of cards during your assembly of the set. Through the year, you may also loose cards. Therefore, we include many blank cards with which you can use a sharpie to make new cards.
The cards are pastel colors of blue, pink, yellow, green, cream and grey. Each card is coded with a letter and a numeral.
We recommend housing your Word Study cards in a 60 drawer storage box. 4 sets of storage boxes are required to house the complete Word Study Set.
Here is link to one sold by Ace Hardware:
AceA® 60 Drawer Parts Storage Box
Word Study
