Standard English Verbs
Your child can use standard verb forms in writing. They write we were playing, not we was playing, and know why it matters.
In curriculum terms
Use Standard English verb inflections in place of non-standard local forms
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How to tell they’ve got it
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Try this together
If your child sometimes says "we was" or "they done it" in conversation, do they know to write "we were" and "they did it" in their schoolwork — using standard written English?
Where this sits on the map
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Curriculum alignment
Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.
This skill sits outside the F–6 Australian Curriculum — no candidate code matched (v0.1). No NSW K–6 outcome code matched (v0.1). No Victorian Curriculum 2.0 code matched (v0.1).