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It is widely used in both public and private schools on the West Coast. Wakefield Country Day School is one of the first schools on the East Coast to implement this method in its curriculum.
The method teaches children (and adults) of all ages how to draw by seeing the lines that create shape. Every shape is made of a combination of straight lines, curved lines, angled lines, circles and dots. These families of lines are called “the alphabet of shape” in Monart Schools.
The visual discrimination developed by the method leads to a visual literacy which supports a child’s learning of reading, writing and comprehension of math. Increased attention spans, increased problem solving skills and increases in as much as 20 percent in reading, writing, and math scores have been noted in studies done of schools using this method.
Fundamentally the method gives enough structure for success and enough freedom for
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