We thus began to communicate with each other through written language; and this proved to be most interesting to the children. They gradually...
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...
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...
The most favourable age for the development of written language is that of childhood, about the age of four, when the natural processes connected with...
If writing serves to correct, or rather, to direct and perfect the mechanism of speech in the child, reading assists in the development of ideas and...
Children are interested in books when they know how to read. This is so obvious that it seems superfluous to say so.
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