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Year 3 Auslan Achievement Standard – Australian Curriculum v9
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Year 3 Auslan Achievement Standard – Australian Curriculum v9

This Achievement Standard describes what students are expected to know and do in Year 3 Languages by the end of the year. Teachers can use it to guide assessment design, collect evidence of learning, and ensure planning stays aligned with the Australian Curriculum v9.

What Students Should Know

By the end of Year 4, students use Auslan to initiate structured interactions to share information related to the classroom and their personal worlds. They participate in activities that involve planning and transacting. They locate and respond to key items of information in texts, using strategies to help interpret and convey meaning in familiar contexts. They use familiar and formulaic language and basic syntax, including fingerspelling (FS), lexical signs, depicting signs (DSs), non-manual features (NMFs) and signing space, to create texts appropriate to context.

Students use combinations of signs and demonstrate understanding that Auslan has language conventions and rules to create and make meaning. They identify patterns in Auslan and make comparisons between Auslan and English. They understand that Auslan is connected with cultural identity, and identify how this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.

Content Descriptors by Strand

This standard is supported by 9 Content Descriptors:

Communicating meaning in Auslan

Interacting in Auslan

AC9L1AU4C01 initiate exchanges and respond to questions about self, others and the classroom environment, using modelled and familiar expressions AC9L1AU4C02 participate in activities that involve planning and transacting with others, using a range of phrases and structures in familiar contexts

Mediating meaning in and between languages

AC9L1AU4C03 locate and respond to key information related to familiar content obtained from signed, visual and multimodal texts AC9L1AU4C04 develop strategies to comprehend and adjust Auslan to convey cultural meaning

Creating text in Auslan

AC9L1AU4C05 create and present informative and imaginative signed, visual and multimodal texts, using fingerspelling (FS), lexical signs, depicting signs (DSs), non-manual features (NMFs), signing space, formulaic expressions and modelled textual conventions

Understanding language and culture

Understanding systems of language

AC9L1AU4U01 recognise and use combinations of signs to form words and phrases AC9L1AU4U02 recognise and use Auslan language conventions, grammatical structures and basic syntax, in familiar texts and contexts AC9L1AU4U03 recognise familiar Auslan structures and features and compare with those of English, in known contexts

Understanding the interrelationship of language, culture and identity

AC9L1AU4U04 identify connections between Auslan, cultural practices and identity

At a Glance

Strand Substrand CDs Elaborations
Communicating meaning in Auslan Interacting in Auslan 2 18
Communicating meaning in Auslan Mediating meaning in and between languages 2 22
Communicating meaning in Auslan Creating text in Auslan 1 10
Understanding language and culture Understanding systems of language 3 26
Understanding language and culture Understanding the interrelationship of language, culture and identity 1 11
Total 9 87

Frequently Asked Questions

What should students know by the end of Year 3 Auslan?
By the end of Year 4, students use Auslan to initiate structured interactions to share information related to the classroom and their personal worlds. They participate in activities that involve planning and transacting. They locate and respond to key items of information in texts, using strategies to help interpret and convey meaning in familiar contexts. They use familiar and formulaic language and basic syntax, including fingerspelling (FS), lexical signs, depicting signs (DSs), non-manual features (NMFs) and signing space, to create texts appropriate to context.Students use combinations of signs and demonstrate understanding that Auslan has language conventions and rules to create and make meaning. They identify patterns in Auslan and make comparisons between Auslan and English. They understand that Auslan is connected with cultural identity, and identify how this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.
How many Content Descriptors support this standard?
9 Content Descriptors support this Achievement Standard (Communicating meaning in Auslan: 2, Communicating meaning in Auslan: 2, Communicating meaning in Auslan: 1, Understanding language and culture: 3, Understanding language and culture: 1).
How does this compare to Year 3?
The Year 3 Auslan standard (ASLANAUSSLLF10Y34) covers the preceding year level. Standards build progressively, with Year 3 expectations extending what was introduced in Year 3.
Is this from the latest Australian Curriculum?
Yes, this Achievement Standard is from the Australian Curriculum version 9.0 (AC v9), the most current version published by ACARA.