Grammar Box Writing Extension
Age 8

In Lower Elementary, students work regularly with the Montessori Grammar Boxes for learning about parts of speech. Sometimes, such as in this piece by an 8-year-old, students copy out the work they do with the cards and symbols of the Grammar Boxes. This sample shows the colorful symbols that are used for each part of speech. Practice at symbolizing sentences gives students a sense of the pattern of verb, noun, and prepositional phrases that make up English sentences.