During the elementary years, Montessori increasingly focuses on the development of research and composition skills. Students write every day, learning to organize increasingly complex ideas and information into well written stories, poems, reports, plays, and student publications. The key to the Montessori language arts curriculum is the quality of the things we give our children to read. Instead of basal readers, Montessori introduce them from an early age to first rate children's books and fascinating works on science, history, geography and the arts. In many Montessori schools, students begin the Junior Great Books program at the third grade.
Literary studies continue every year thereafter through graduation.