Our children, even those who have already been writing for a year, always continue with the three preparatory exercises, which, just as they have...

When the child pronounces the sounds of the consonants he experiences an obvious pleasure. This series of sounds so varied and so well known, which...

To put writing in its real and simple aspects, i.e. to connect it directly with the spoken language, is already in itself a practical step forward and...

We thus began to communicate with each other through written language; and this proved to be most interesting to the children. They gradually...

[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...