Punctuation and Capital Letters

Learning goal: I can use sentence punctuation and capital letters to make written meaning clear.

• Pause and change your voice when punctuation tells you to.
• Recognise full stops, question marks and exclamation marks.
• Choose punctuation that matches a statement or question.
• Use capital letters for familiar place names and holidays.

Steps to use

Read sentence → Check start/name → Choose end mark → Re-read

End marks show how the sentence works

Use the job of the sentence

Curriculum Coverage & Elaborations

The content description is the required target. The elaborations below are taught as examples and contexts, not as disconnected checklist wording.

• E1: using intonation and pauses in response to punctuation, when reading
• E2: identifying different sentence boundary punctuation, when reading
• E3: writing different types of sentences; for example, statements and questions, and discussing appropriate punctuation
• E4: identifying and using capital letters to name places and holidays

• Question with full stop — If it asks, use a question mark.
• Capital for every word — Use capitals for sentence starts and proper nouns.
• Exclamation everywhere — Use exclamation marks for strong feeling or emphasis.

1. End mark sort — Sort sentences by punctuation needed.
   Where are you / I am here / Wow
2. Name hunt — Find proper nouns that need capitals.
   Sam / Friday / Canberra
3. Fix the sentence — Rewrite a sentence with capitals and punctuation.
   mia ran home

Quick checks

• Add punctuation: Where is Max
• Fix: sam likes monday
• Which mark ends a question?
• Why does Australia need a capital?

I am ready when I can

• I can pause and change your voice when punctuation tells you to.
• I can recognise full stops, question marks and exclamation marks.
• I can choose punctuation that matches a statement or question.
• I can use capital letters for familiar place names and holidays.

Curriculum equivalents for That written language uses punctuation such as full stops, question...

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

These references identify matching or closely related learning. Curriculum sequence, terminology and depth vary, so teachers should use the mapped skill and lesson difficulty to confirm suitability.

Australian Curriculum v9.0 is the canonical source for this SkillrHub lesson. Victoria and NSW entries name the closest published state codes or outcomes; international entries are planning references rather than claims of identical curricula.