[P]reparatory actions provide a child with a mechanism that can give an impulse that should lead to an unexpected explosion of writing.

The composition of words caused some real surprises. Children showed a great interest in the spoken language which they already possessed and sought...

When a child who can write is confronted with a word which he has to read and interpret, he is silent for some time and usually reads the component...

The hand too, therefore, needs its own preparation. What is needed before one actually writes is to learn writing by means of a series of interesting...

Possession of the art of writing is not a mere skill, it represents the possession of a superior form of language added to its natural form. Written...

It was about six months later that they began to understand what reading meant, and they did so only through associating it with writing. Their eyes...

One day a child began to write. He was so astonished that he shouted aloud, "I've written! I've written!" Other children rushed up to him, full of...

With the profound interest of one who has made a discovery, he had understood that each of these sounds corresponded to a letter of the alphabet...

Once the child can speak, he can express himself and no longer depends on others to guess his needs. He finds himself in touch with human society, for...

We do not aim at making a reform in the manner of writing. This would be completely foreign to our goal. We only wish to facilitate writing, no matter...