This article supports itself on the cultural-historical approach to discuss the body's role in the written language acquisition process. In order to accomplish this, some part of Lev Seminovich Vigotski's current contributions in preschool age (drawing, make believe, etc.) as being fundamental for the written development. This general reflection makes a big effort towards a necessity in reviewing the educational debate, regarding the traditional and mechanist tendency in the pedagogical treatment of this matter. Undoubtedly, the focus on the literacy practices brings about new possibilities of comprehension about the writing appropriation process along childhood education. However, the conceptual discussion needs to advance towards guaranteeing a greater visibility to the exploration of the diverse infantile symbolization processes (whether systemized or not) and their relationship with writing, especially, the body's participation (herein) understood in its semiotic statute.
Body; literacy; child