Lowercase Letters

Dee and Kala are walking through Alphabet Arboretum, a large outdoor garden! As they turn down a new path, they see something special. “Wow! These A's are beautiful!" “Both of them? The little one is an A too?” Let's help Dee and Kala learn all about "Lowercase Letters". All the letters in the alphabet have two sizes: big and little. The little letters are called lowercase letters. You can remember this because little and lower start with the same letter: L. Lowercase letters are smaller, or shorter, than their bigger letter buddies. Most only reach the middle, red line on a piece of paper. Some lowercase letters, like these, do reach the top, blue line, but they are still smaller than their bigger letter buddies. Let's look at the letter D. See how the little D reaches the top, blue line but its belly is still smaller than the bigger D? Or notice how only one side of the little H reaches the top line, but both sides of the big H do? These are the lowercase letters that stay below the middle, red line. And these two letters, I and J, stay mostly below the middle red line except for the tiny dot that floats above them! We can write all the letters in the alphabet as lowercase if we want to! We use lowercase letters most of the time. Now that we've seen what all the lowercase letters look like. Let's see if we can find some in this list! Remember, lowercase letters are smaller and shorter. Here the lowercase letters are G, R, A and D. G, R and A are lowercase because they only reach the middle, red line. D is lowercase because its belly is smaller than the big D's. What about this list of letters? What lowercase letters are hiding here? K is lowercase because the bend in the little K only reaches the middle line making it smaller than big K. And I is lowercase because it stays below the middle red line except for the tiny dot that floats above it! While Dee and Kala finish looking at the garden, let's remember! Today we learned about lowercase letters. All the letters in the alphabet have two sizes: big and little. The little letters are called lowercase letters. They are smaller or shorter than their bigger letter buddies. We can write the whole alphabet in lowercase letters. Lowercase letters are also used most of the time! “How do you think they got those bushes to grow like that anyway?” "Oh that's simple. They just watered them in the shape of each letter." “Hmm, I don’t know, Dee. That doesn’t sound quite right.”