Capital letters and full stops
Start sentences with capitals and end with full stops.
Taught in Primary 1 in Nigeria (NERDC), Year 1 in United Kingdom (National Curriculum), Grade 1 in Canada (Ontario).
Nigeria (NERDC)
Primary 1
- Strand
- Grammatical Accuracy
- Called
- Capital letters and full stops
- How it's taught
- Grammatical Accuracy: parts of speech named and drilled; sentence correction exercises; tense tables.
United Kingdom (National Curriculum)
Year 1
- Strand
- Grammar and Punctuation
- Called
- Capital letters and full stops
- How it's taught
- Explicit grammar with national terminology (fronted adverbial, subordinate clause); punctuation taught to statutory lists.
Canada (Ontario)
Grade 1
- Strand
- Language Conventions: Grammar
- Called
- Capital letters and full stops
- How it's taught
- Language conventions taught in the context of reading and writing; terminology introduced as tools for revising.