Upper Case Letters

Strokes

Straight   E F H I L T
Circular  A K M N V W X Y
Combines  C G J O Q U S



 Source:
Linda Johansson, Kathy Angst, Brenda Beer, Sue Martin, Wendy Rebeck & Nicole Sibilleau, Canadian Language Benchmarks 2000: ESL for Literacy Learners. Ottawa, ON: Centre for Canadian Language Benchmarks, 2000, p. 5. [www.language.ca]

Special attention should be devoted to teaching the alphabet. People with intellectual / developmental disabilities sometimes find it difficult to distinguish between letters, especially those that have similar shapes.

Lower case letters may be easier to learn because they have more distinctive shapes.