Modern Montessori Reading: Picturing Stories (literacy)

Support your child’s pre-reading skills and language comprehension with this hands-on Montessori-inspired sequencing activity, designed especially for homeschool and early childhood classrooms. Perfect for children ages 3–6, these activities gently introduce the foundations of story structure, sequencing, and print awareness—all through engaging, child-led learning.

Children practice forming mental pictures and understanding sequence words like first, next, and last while developing an awareness of story order (beginning, middle, end).

What’s Included

• Activity 1: 8 unique stories designed for listening comprehension. Each story encourages children to carefully listen and sequence events without relying on picture clues. Teachers or parents can guide children in using the words first, next, last while retelling.

• Activity 2: 8 self-correcting picture-based sequencing stories (4 cards each). Children independently order the story, then flip the cards to check their work—making it perfect for Montessori shelf work or quiet independent practice.

Why Montessori Families Love It

• Builds strong pre-reading comprehension skills

• Encourages independent, self-directed learning

• No prep beyond printing—easy to introduce at home or in the classroom

• Designed for hands-on, concrete learning aligned with Montessori philosophy

Bring the joy of storytelling into your homeschool with this Montessori comprehension and sequencing activity—a simple, effective way to strengthen language skills and prepare your child for confident reading.

This is part of my Modern Montessori Reading Series - activities based on up to date research on how children learn to read.