The teaching of letter formation including capital letters, is integral to the Ready Steady Phonics Letters and Sounds programme. From the outset in Reception, children learn the grapheme that represents the phoneme and alongside this, they are taught how to form the letter(s) correctly. Children also learn an accompanying letter formation patter for each letter of the alphabet. In this way children are jointly developing their aural, visual and motor memories for graphemes and phonemes within the lesson.