Need some help teaching difference in the lowercases b and d.

Question

Just some way to help a six-year-old remember how to get the two right.

Answer 1

Have you tried the BED approach. You draw a bed and then write the word bed on the footboard of it. This shows that the "b" makes one post on the bed and the "d" makes the other post and together they fit on the footboard. I got this idea from a teacher magazine. They always have great ideas. Here is the link to the page that has the picture on it:

http://www.reallygoodstuff.com/product_d...

Answer 2

Make a bed with your hands by overlapping the two sets of fingers and putting your thumbs up. Ask the children how to spell bed. They can look at their hands and see which way they're facing to see which goes where.

Answer 3

Teach that c comes  before d...

You need to write a c to make a d - imagine printing it. Works well.

For b, you need to make a buh-buh-belly (sound it out).

Answer 4

My daughter is right handed and I am left so I told her that a b faces her writing and a d faced mine, it helped her a lot.

I meant faces her writing hand

Answer 5

That's a typical issue with kids that age and honestly they will pretty much learn the difference on their own after some time.

You could use the alphabet as a way to show them that the bumps on each letter face each other.  a b c d e f.  The b faces it's bump towards the d and the d faces it's bump to the b.  

You could make up a story about how b is mad at a for doing something silly and therefore it turns "it's back" to the a.  Same with the d and the e.  

Answer 6

The traditional one is the word "bed"  because it's bed-shaped, with a long flat bit in the middle and a head and a foot.

Answer 7

The b and the d face each other in the alphabet so you can say

(b c's d) b sees d

Or you can make a face. b and d are eyes. c is the nose.

b  d

.c

(----)

Answer 8

b has a line with a bump to the right.....and d has a bump to the left....easy and simple

Answer 9

This is very common and they grow of it on their own.

Answer 10

tell him that b talks to d

bd

oh, and now that i think about it they look like a pair of glasses. tell the six-year-old to make a pair of glasses b-d