These letters have a straight line and a curve.
Step 1: Let's Learn
Read it, or press Listen and follow the words.
The line comes first
Draw the line down. Then hang the round part on it.
Step 2: Your Turn
Practice makes it stick.
Trace the Last Letters
The line always comes first. Watch the numbers.
B
Step 3: Quick Check
Show what you know.
Question 1 of 6
Which letter is a line with two round parts?
Question 2 of 6
Which letter is a straight back with two bumps?
Question 3 of 6
Which letter is a straight back with one big curve?
Question 4 of 6
Which letter is a P with a leg?
Question 5 of 6
Which letter is a curve like a smile?
Question 6 of 6
Which letter has its curve only at the top?
What You Learned
- The straight line comes first.
- Then the curve hangs off it.
For the grown-up
B, D, P and R open with an identical downstroke, which is the point of teaching them together: one movement they already have, then a different ending each time.
This grouping is also the defense against b and d reversals later. The letters are distinguished by how they are written rather than by which way they face, and a child who has the movement does not have to remember a direction.
That is the alphabet. Twenty-six capitals in five sittings, and none of them needed a worked example — the stroke drawing itself does what a paragraph could not.