Do I understand this link correctly?

Slightly baffled here....

On this page http://www.moteaco.com/36scope.html, are they saying that on the age 3-6 curriculum they expect a child to know what the following are:

Noun
Article
Adjective
Conjunction
Preposition
Verb
Adverb
Pronoun
Interjection



I know what all those are but I studied linguistics. DH on the other hand has a PHD and doesn't know all of them.

Most adults don't know all those terms and I haven't even looked at all the rest of the suggested curriculum.

Surely I must have misunderstood the purpose of that webpage??

I would think it's how to use them in day to day speech, not actually identify them.

We don't ~he but by age 6 we were getting that to be done at home, ermm thank goodness for Google as my time at school has looong since passed!

I don't really understand the context of that link - at first glance it looks a bit too prescriptive for my tastes... But I'm of the 'making it up as we go along' school of thought

I don't really understand the context of that link - at first glance it looks a bit too prescriptive for my tastes... But I'm of the 'making it up as we go along' school of thought

It's just detailing what the Montessori curriculum covers during those years. So its' a proper school curriculum rather than anything to do with home educating.

I'm not sure they expect that them to know what they are exactly but I think it wouldn't be too hard to make say noun, verb, adjective, and adverbs cards and use them to make a sentence (i.e "the loud boy runs fast"). I'd have to research montessori teaching grammar 3-6 to know for sure how they do it.

As Steph says, it is a scope and sequence list of 3-6 'curriculum for Montessori (although not 'officially' Montessori IYKWIM)

It details the sorts of things you would plan to cover in that age group.

They are talking about using those word classes not using the technical labels for them, although it never hurst to introduce the 'technical terms' to even quite small children - they need to hear them and learn them to be able to use them!

Useful links for those interested

http://www.michaelolaf.net/1CW36language.html

Montessori is actually quite structured in some ways
http://www.infomontessori.com/language/total-reading-introduction.htm