Regarding reading, it is already in a sense implied in the exercise with the movable alphabet. In a perfectly phonetic language it could be developed...

Now the hand can be prepared directly to trace the signs of the alphabet by the help of the tactile and muscular senses, not by that of sight. We have...

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

A teacher said a word rapidly in passing, and on return saw it had been written with moveable letters. For these mites of four, once was enough...