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Forming Capital Letters

Form capital letters correctly; print many upper- and lowercase letters legibly

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Can your child write all the capital letters clearly and legibly so that someone reading their work can easily tell which letter is which?

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Builds on
Sitting and holding a pencilages 4–6Master lowercase formation before capitals
Forming Capital Lettersthis skill · ages 5–6
Unlocks
Joining Lettersages 6–10Capital letter formation supports correct sizing in joined writing

solid = must come firstdashed = helps

Curriculum alignment

Candidate matches to official curriculum codes — machine-suggested, unreviewed (v0.1).

Show candidate curriculum codes · 3 ACARA · 2 NSW · 3 VIC

Australian Curriculum v9 candidate

AC9E1LA10medium confidenceYear 1 · Language

understand that written language uses punctuation such as full stops, question marks and exclamation marks, and uses capital letters for familiar proper nouns

AC9E1LY08medium confidenceYear 1 · Literacy

write words using unjoined lower-case and upper-case letters

AC9E2LA10low confidenceYear 2 · Language

recognise that capital letters are used in titles and commas are used to separate items in lists

NSW syllabus codes & stages only

ENE-HANDW-01high confidenceEnglish K-10 · Early Stage 1
EN1-HANDW-01low confidenceEnglish K-10 · Stage 1

Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only

VC2EFLY15high confidenceEnglish · Foundation · Literacy strand
VC2E2LY13medium confidenceEnglish · Level 2 · Literacy strand
VC2E1LY15medium confidenceEnglish · Level 1 · Literacy strand

These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.

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