This study aimed to identify teachers’ views with regard to teaching basal reading and writing with cursive italic writing and basic vertical letters. Action research that is one of the qualitative research methods was employed. The population of the study was consisted of elementary 1st and 2nd graders’ teachers working in Denizli and its districts. Using criterion sampling, 68 elementary teachers were asked for their opinions. As for the data gathering instrument a survey of open-ended six questions developed by the researchers were used in the study. Open-coding method was used for data analysis. As a result of the analysis, it was seen that the teachers found teaching with basic vertical letters easier both in preparing students for reading and writing and in teaching writing. Furthermore, they argued that with basic vertical letters, students write more beautiful and legible. Most of the teachers participated in the study preferred basic vertical letters just because they found cursive italic writing more difficult in teaching basal reading and writing. A comprehensive training related to cursive italic writing should be provided to teachers. Wider scale studies focusing on whether teachers prefer cursive italic writing or basic vertical letters in teaching basal reading and writing