Year 3 Chinese 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.

By the end of Year 4, students use Chinese language to initiate interactions to share information and ideas related to the classroom and their personal worlds. They use modelled language to participate in spoken and written activities that involve planning. 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 characters, Pinyin and modelled language to create texts.

Students recognise and use sounds, tones, rhythms, syllables and intonation patterns of spoken Chinese. They demonstrate understanding that Chinese has non-verbal, spoken and written language conventions and rules to create and make meaning. They recognise that some terms have cultural meanings. They identify patterns in Chinese and make comparisons between Chinese and English. They understand that the Chinese language is connected with culture, and identify how this is reflected in their own language(s) and culture(s).

Content Descriptors by Strand

This standard is supported by 9 Content Descriptors:

Communicating meaning in Chinese

Interacting in Chinese

Mediating meaning in and between languages

Creating text in Chinese

Understanding language and culture

Understanding the interrelationship of language and culture

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