AC9L1AU2C02 Year 1 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 1 Languages 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.

participate in a range of play-based activities, using modelled expressions and visual cues

Elaborations

• 1

  participating in group games that require recalling information, such as going around a circle and adding to a lengthening sequence of events, for example,

  YESTERDAY ZOO, PRO1 SAW GIRAFFE

  Yesterday at the zoo, I saw a giraffe.

  YESTERDAY ZOO, PRO1 SAW GIRAFFE, KOALA ...

  Yesterday at the zoo, I saw a giraffe and a koala ...

• 2 taking turns in games or activities that involve information exchange such as 'Twenty questions' with yes/no answers, or 'Guess who?', for example, using and responding to directional terms or DSs to complete an obstacle course or action game
• 3 leading class activities, for example, a ‘Follow the leader' game providing movements for others to copy
• 4

  collaborating in activities that involve making decisions about choices or contributions such as playing a game of 'Good choice or bad choice?', for example,

  STEALING MONEY; GOOD OR BAD CHOICE?

  Is stealing money a good choice or a bad choice?

  PUSH FRIEND; GOOD OR BAD CHOICE?

  Is pushing a friend a good choice or a bad choice?

  HELPING WASH DISHES; GOOD OR BAD CHOICE?

  Is helping to wash the dishes a good choice or a bad choice?

• 5

  participating in role-plays that involve scenarios such as ordering a meal, buying food or other items, transacting payment or giving feedback

  PRO1 WANT ICE-CREAM. PRO1 NEED PAY $5.00 LADY

  I want ice cream. I need to pay the lady $5.00.

  CHOCOLATE ICE-CREAM DELICIOUS

  Chocolate ice cream is delicious.

• 6

  interacting with a signing puppet or doll in an imaginary setting, for example, by signing questions such as

  PRO2 LIKE FS: DO WHAT?

  What do you like to do?

  WHY?

  Why?

• 7 participating in Auslan games that use simple clauses in creative ways, for example, playing the improvisation game ‘Space jump’
• 8

  playing whole class games such as

  TIME WHAT WOLF?,

  using o’clock times

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