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What Are Upper Case Letters? How Do We Introduce Them To The Child?

Upper case letters are the capitalized form of letters in the English alphabet. A teacher introduces upper case letters to a five-year old child using three sets of cards with individual letters - one with lowercase letters, one with uppercase letters, and one with both forms side by side. The teacher presents lowercase letters first, then introduces the matching uppercase letters using their proper names and describing them as "capital letters". She reinforces the concepts using repetition and activities matching uppercase letters to their lowercase counterparts. The goal is to help the child recognize and differentiate uppercase from lowercase letters.

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What Are Upper Case Letters? How Do We Introduce Them To The Child?

Upper case letters are the capitalized form of letters in the English alphabet. A teacher introduces upper case letters to a five-year old child using three sets of cards with individual letters - one with lowercase letters, one with uppercase letters, and one with both forms side by side. The teacher presents lowercase letters first, then introduces the matching uppercase letters using their proper names and describing them as "capital letters". She reinforces the concepts using repetition and activities matching uppercase letters to their lowercase counterparts. The goal is to help the child recognize and differentiate uppercase from lowercase letters.

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QUESTION 3:
WHAT ARE UPPER CASE LETTERS? HOW DO WE
INTRODUCE THEM TO THE CHILD?
Upper case letters here refer to English language
alphabets in there capital form.
Materials:
1.Three sets of twenty six cards
2.one for each letter of the alphabet
a)The first set is 8x10cm and each card has one
letter written in the lower case, i.e. small letter
b) The second set is 98cmx10cm and each
card has one letter written in the upper case,
i.e. capital letter
c) The third set is 16cmx10cm and has one letter
written in both the lower and upper cases; the
lower case letter on the left and the upper case
letter on the right.
Presentation
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o This exercise is most suited to children


around the age of five.
o The directress starts off by inviting a child to
come and with her as she introduces the
material to him.
o Initially she chooses three letters where the
capital letters hold a striking resemblance
to their lower case letter counterparts.
o She then introduces the names of the
letters to the child in this lesson, in contrast
to only introducing their sounds as
discussed earlier.
o She then shows the child the lower case
letter first before showing the upper case
and announcing its name alongside its
nature as being a ‘capital letter’.
o She repeats the same for two more letters.
She uses the help of Three Period Lessons
to enforce the learning of these terms,
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using ‘upper case’ and ‘capital letter’


alternatively.
o When it is apparent that the child is
comfortable with these, she continues on
with three at time now until all the letters
have been covered.
o The teacher now lays out all the lower case
letters at random in vertical columns,
leaving ample room beside it to place the
capital letters.
o She gives the child the upper case letters
one at a time and has him place each next
to the lower case letter.
o She then poses a question to him in a
manner of discussion, asking if the capital
letter looks the same or different to the
lower case letters, using the terms ‘capital
letter’ and ‘upper case’ interchangeably.
o Once all the letters have been covered in
the lesson and placed accurately, she
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checks with the third set of cards before


replacing it.
o She concludes by collecting the lower case
letters, as well as the upper case letters in
alphabetical order respectively.
o This exercise enables children to recognise
and differentiate the upper case form of the
letter from the kind he already knows, i.e.
the lower case. It als aids in the punctuation
of a sentence as well as indirectly helps the
child write.

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