The wonders of the wild alphabet, come in many shapes and sizes. Such as the curly caterpillar letters. They start by looping from the top, before curling out the bottom. They really are that simple.

“Every word we read and write started with him and his friends ... These first two signs came to form the name of the system itself: alphabet. Some letters were borrowed from hieroglyphs ...

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters in ...