1. Early writing helps children crack the reading code. Because our language is a sound-symbol system, attempting to write the sounds kids hear is great phonics practice.

Berninger, Virginia, Robert D. Abbott, Janine Jones, Beverly J. Wolf, Laura Gould, Marci Anderson-Younstrom, Shirley Shimada, Kenn Apel. (2006) “Early development of language by hand: composing ...

There’s something magical about writing in the early morning. Before the emails, meetings, and noise of the day kick in, your mind is clear and open, the world still and undemanding. It’s a ...

THE first written language in the New World was developed in south-eastern Mexico by a civilisation known as the Olmecs. That dates the emergence of early American writing to 650 BC, at least 350 ...

The markings represent "some form of sign use or early writing", says archaeologist Garman Harbottle of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, who analysed the symbols.