Concerning our first set of research questions, the analyses performed show that
children are capable of elaborating a historical perspective in relation to their learning of
writing at early educational levels.
In the context of the graphic and oral elaboration of a specific, guided autobiography,
most of the children (a) identified a sort of prehistory of writing by expressing that there
was a time when they did not produce any kind of mark on paper, (b) rooted their
writing activities in figurative drawing and (c) marked analytical or global ways of
entering the domain of writing.