Expert: Irulan Serena - 9/10/2006

Question
I'm not sure whether you will be able to help me with this but I'll give it a try. I am trying to teach children about the history of writing. Can you tell me what the main things I should say are?

Thank you

Answer
Hello Jacqueline,

You did not tell me what age or grade which makes it difficult to determine exactly what type of information to give.  

If you Goggle ‘History of writing’ you will get much information from which you can pick and choose to fit the age / grade of the children.

Here are some examples from Google.

History of Writing
The advent of a writing system, however, seems to coincide with the transition ... who earned their place in alphabetic history by symbolizing the vowels. ...
www.historian.net/hxwrite.htm - 24k -  

History of Writing
History of Writing. Human beings began to write long after they rose up on two legs and formed societies which we can fairly call civilized. ...
www.delmar.edu/engl/instruct/stomlin/1301int/lessons/language/history.htm - 15k -  

History of writing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Historians draw a distinction between prehistory and history, with history defined by the advent of writing. The cave paintings and petroglyphs of ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_writing - 35k -  

KryssTal : Writing
An introduction to writing, its history and evolution. ... Writing. The history, development and evolution of the world's writing systems ...
www.krysstal.com/writing.html - 52k -  

History of WRITING
History of WRITING including Cuneiform, Evolution of a script, Hieroglyphs and papyrus, Seals of the Indus valley, Chinese characters.
www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ab33 -  

There are many more sites but I've give you a few to show you that you can get tons of information from the web.

Regards,

Iru


As I said without a determination of age or grade it is IMPOSSIBLE to give proper answers.  Next time you ask a question makes sure you know what you want and are asking before you ask it.