Year 5 Auslan Achievement Standard – Australian Curriculum v9
This Achievement Standard describes what students are expected to know and do in Year 5 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 6, students initiate and use strategies to maintain interactions in Auslan that are related to their immediate environment. They collaborate in activities that involve the language of planning and problem-solving to share information, preferences and ideas. They use strategies to locate and interpret information and ideas in texts, and demonstrate understanding by responding in Auslan or English, adjusting their response to context, purpose and audience. They create texts, selecting and using a variety of signs, depicting signs (DSs), non-manual features (NMFs) and signing spaces. They sequence information and ideas, and use conventions appropriate to text type.
Students apply rules of signs, pace and signing space to develop fluency. They use modelled structures when creating and responding in Auslan. They compare language structures and features in Auslan and English, using some metalanguage. They show understanding of how some language reflects cultural practices and consider 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
AC9L2AU6C01 initiate and sustain modelled exchanges in familiar contexts related to students’ personal worlds and school environment AC9L2AU6C02 participate in activities that involve planning and negotiating with others, using language that expresses information, preferences and ideasMediating meaning in and between languages
AC9L2AU6C03 locate and process information and ideas in a range of signed, visual and multimodal texts, and respond in different ways to suit purpose AC9L2AU6C04 apply strategies to interpret and convey meaning in familiar signed and visual cultural contextsCreating text in Auslan
AC9L2AU6C05 create and present a range of informative and imaginative signed, visual and multimodal texts using a variety of modelled structures to sequence information and ideas, and using fingerspelling (FS), lexical signs, depicting signs (DSs), non-manual features (NMFs) and signing space, appropriate to text typeUnderstanding language and culture
Understanding systems of language
AC9L2AU6U01 apply knowledge of signs, pace and signing space to develop fluency in familiar contexts AC9L2AU6U02 use knowledge of modelled grammatical structures and formulaic expressions to compose and respond to texts, using appropriate textual conventions AC9L2AU6U03 compare some Auslan structures and features with those of English, using some familiar metalanguageUnderstanding the interrelationship of language, culture and identity
AC9L2AU6U04 recognise that language reflects cultural practices, values and identity, and that this impacts on communicationAt a Glance
| Strand | Substrand | CDs | Elaborations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Communicating meaning in Auslan | Interacting in Auslan | 2 | 17 |
| Communicating meaning in Auslan | Mediating meaning in and between languages | 2 | 16 |
| Communicating meaning in Auslan | Creating text in Auslan | 1 | 7 |
| Understanding language and culture | Understanding systems of language | 3 | 23 |
| Understanding language and culture | Understanding the interrelationship of language, culture and identity | 1 | 10 |
| Total | 9 | 73 | |