AC9E1LA01 Year 1 English

This Content Descriptor from Year 1 English provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

understand how language, facial expressions and gestures are used to interact with others when asking for and providing information, making offers, exclaiming, requesting and giving commands

Elaborations

• 1 recognising the effects of words, signing, gestures and body language on the way communications are received by others
• 2 understanding that symbols, gestures and body language are key components of communication in First Nations Australian communities
• 3 viewing short films and discussing how characters use words and body language to convey emotions
• 4 learning the difference between closed questions; for example, “Are you ready?”, and open questions; for example, “What made this text so exciting?”

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