Capitals for Names, Days and I
Your child can use capital letters for names of people and places. They also use them for the days of the week and the word I.
In curriculum terms
Use capital letters for proper nouns (names of people, places) the days of the week, and the personal pronoun 'I'
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If your child is writing their friend's name or the name of a town, do they automatically start it with a capital letter — and do they write the word 'I' with a capital when talking about themselves?
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Curriculum alignment
Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.
Show candidate curriculum codes · 2 ACARA · 3 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
understand that written language uses punctuation such as full stops, question marks and exclamation marks, and uses capital letters for familiar proper nouns
recognise that capital letters are used in titles and commas are used to separate items in lists
Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only
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