Birth to six years is a child's sensitive period for language. In preparation for language work, children start in sensorial and practical life areas, where they learn to focus, concentrate, and develop a sense of order. The lessons in the language area start with commutation, writing skills, and, finally, reading. Through tactile senses, children learn the sounds by using sand-paper letters and tracing trays. They also explore fun ways to combine sounds to make words. 

The road to literacy starts with spoken language: with sounds and familiar objects that begin with that sound. Then, the hands-on phonetic approach helps young children to form a clear understanding of how written words encode the spoken sounds of the language into the symbolic letters of the alphabet. Using this technique, children master the sounds made by each letter, as well as the letter represented by each sound - one letter at a time until the entire alphabet has been mastered.