Written literacy is achieved with a lot of hard work on the part of the teacher, and the child himself. This is explicable because written speech is a qualitatively new kind compared to oral speech and although it develops on its basis, it has a number of its own specific features which make it more difficult to acquire. The teacher's function is to build up a concept of speech through the graphic. The child's acquired ability to write plays an enormous part in his future thinking activity and especially in the constitution of his habits of behavior. In order to support and facilitate the process of children's acquisition of writing in the first grade, it is necessary to make special preparations in kindergarten for the acquisition of the graphic component of writing. This targeted preparation should be preceded by a diagnosis of the psychomotor readiness of each individual child to master the graphic component of writing, because only the diagnosis makes it possible to predict psychomotor development and to discover the potential opportunities for this in a variety of children's activities.
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