Key learning points

1. The letter b has an ascender.
2. The letter p has a descender.
3. The letters b and p are formed by "going down and back up and around".
4. The middle part of the letters b and p are x-height letters and sit in the middle set of the tramlines.

Common misconception

Keywords

• Ascender - the part of a letter that extends above the level of the top of an "x"

• Baseline - this is the line that most letters sit on

• Tramlines - straight, parallel lines that we can use as a guide to help us write neatly and keep our letters the same size

• Descender - the part of a letter that descends below the level of the bottom of an "x"