Teaching about Capital Letters
The terms “uppercase” and “lowercase” refer to the old days of typesetting when some letters were kept higher, in the upper cases, and others were kept in the lower cases. This is a cool bit of trivia for us parents, but try explaining this concept to your little student and you’ll get a blank look in return. I ran into this while teaching my daughter, my firstborn. Then I tried the whole “big letter, little letter” approach, but that didn’t work, either. The letters were nearly the same size—what do you mean, this one’s a big letter and that one’s … Continue reading