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AC9L1AU2C05: Year 1 Languages Content Descriptor – Creating text in Auslan
AC9L1AU2C05 Year 1 Languages

AC9L1AU2C05 – Year 1 Languages: Creating text in Auslan

Strand
Communicating meaning in Auslan
Substrand
Creating text in Auslan

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.

Content Descriptor

with support, create signed, visual and multimodal texts, using familiar fingerspelling (FS), lexical signs, depicting signs (DSs), non-manual features (NMFs) and signing space

Elaborations

  • • creating and presenting a modelled show-and-tell describing an object or animal using lexical adjectives such as colours, or DSs relating to size, weight, pattern, texture and shape
  • • presenting specific information such as a weather report using digital presentation as a visual prompt, using DSs (entity, size and space specifiers (SASSs) and handling) to share information with the class or teacher
  • • describing their favourite places and activities in a presentation, using pictures, photos or objects
  • • matching bilingual captions/labels to images of First Nations Country/Place locations in their local area or elsewhere in Australia
  • • demonstrating a simple procedure using list buoys and related sign vocabulary to explain the different steps, for example, how to play a game or how to find a hidden object
  • • creating a text about personal experiences such as a holiday or weekend event, or daily routines/family life such as how they travel to school, what they eat for lunch, using lexicalised signs, time markers, CAs, DSs and NMFs, where appropriate and relevant
  • • creating their own variations of familiar stories or picture books only using SASSs, entity and handling DSs
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    creating sequences of signs using a fixed handshape, such as using only the pointer handshape to sign

    YOU THINK I SHY?

    You think I’m shy?

  • • planning and enacting imagined adventures, using CAs such as eye-gaze change, body shift and head orientation, for example, riding a bike up hill and then down again really fast
  • •

    making their own handshape creations, for example, flat hand =

    FISH

    ,

    pointer finger =

    A PERSON

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 1 ASLANAUSFLLF10Y12
Year 1 Languages Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 2, students use Auslan to interact and share information related to the classroom and themselves. They use cues to respond to questions and instructions. They locate and convey key items of information in texts using non-verbal, visual and contextual cues to help make meaning. They use familiar signs including fingerspelling (FS), lexical signs, depicting signs (DSs), non-manual features (NMFs) and signing space, to create texts.Students recognise and use the parameters of signs. They demonstrate understanding that Auslan has conventions and rules for signs and features of language. They give examples of similarities and differences between some features of Auslan and English. They understand that language is connected with culture and identity, and notice how this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.