Abstract
This article focuses on literacy in the light of Historical-Cultural Psychology, establishing relationships between it and the cultural development of the psyche, highlighting the links between speech and writing. It aims to present elements that corroborate the understanding of the psychic processes that mediate the learning of the writing exploring the cultural traffic that advances from the primeval graphic expressions, denominated by Alexander Romanovich Luria like "prehistory of the writing", to the symbolic writing. Since the legacy of this author confers centrality to the early development of writing, we have identified in the historical-cultural literature the existence of a hiatus in the treatment, specifically, of the transition between prehistory and symbolic writing, since it leads us the search for clarifications about it. Based on the historical-dialectical materialist method, we adopted as research procedures: the conceptual analysis of the bibliographic references adopted and the analysis of empirical data derived from the field records of two literacy teachers.
Keywords:
Historical-Cultural Psychology; human development; literacy