Magnetic letters - I can't read them!

[stressed2007]

Ok. I may be getting overly anal here but I want some magnetic letters for the fridge to start teaching letters. I have already posted on here regarding whether to teach upper or lower case first (result was nearly unanimously lower first with one person saying go for both at once) so bought some lower case ones from ELC. I am looking at these and they look a bit odd compared to how I write letters. Many have a tail on them (so more how they might look if they were in a joined up handwriting sentence) while other are just a bit odd (the "K" for example looks like a squashed "R" with a loop at the top).

Am I being too sensitive about this (I could not even guess what the K was trying to be!) and/or does anyone know where I can get other brands of letters which are a bit more usual. Thanks very much.

Children are taught to put tails and flicks on their letters these days - it makes it easier for them to do joined-up handwriting. So even when the letters are separate, they still have the tails. I presume this is why the ELC make their letters look the way they do.

We were told by dd's school (she starts in september) if you are going to teach letters to do lower class. Dd knows both as we have lower and higher fridge magnets. We have ELC letters and have had no problems, the K does look a little odd