VOCABULARY EXPANSION
A child's vocabulary increases exponentially during the sensitive years of language development (from 3 to 6 years). In order to satisfy this natural hunger for words, they are provided with an
extensive vocabulary: Names from biology, geometry, geography etc. as well as names of the properties of sensory material. The child's absorbent mind takes in all these new words ‘quickly and
brilliantly’ (Montessori 1946).
