Thus we would use a kind of gymnastics to prepare the mechanisms of the hand. This preparation can be compared, in view of its goal, to the other...

The exercises with the movable alphabet place the whole language in motion. They provoke a real intellectual activity...These continuous exercises...

Our experiment, begun in Rome in 1907 with children between 3 and 6 years of age, was, I believe, the first and only example of an attempt to teach...

Written language can be acquired much more easily by children of four years than by those of six years of age.

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...