AC9L1AU4C03 Year 3 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 3 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.

locate and respond to key information related to familiar content obtained from signed, visual and multimodal texts

Elaborations

• 1 using information collected from peers about interests, preferences or routines and presenting findings to the class using visual supports/graphic organisers, for example, determining the percentage of environmentally friendly methods of transport that students use to get to school
• 2

  categorising object and signs based on their handshapes in activities such as a handshape bingo game, listing or signing signs related to the fixed handshape selected by the teacher, for example,

  handshape:five = COCKATOO, WHERE, HOW-MANY, FIRE

• 3 watching an Auslan video explaining the basic rules in a game or sport and following instructions by playing the game
• 4 learning that First Nations Australian languages change according to connections and relationships between people, and giving examples of how this occurs in Auslan
• 5 paraphrasing, retelling or recalling key points of information used in announcements, short documentaries or news items, such as signing back the information in Auslan or explaining the content to a peer who watched a different item
• 6 watching a story in Auslan and sequencing the events, using visual cues
• 7 viewing short Auslan stories or signed presentations by a teacher, peer or visitor, identifying specific points of information and recording observations in table form, for example, who, what, when, where
• 8

  using CAs and gestures to predict subsequent events in a cartoon or short film clip, answering, for example,

  NEXT, WHAT?

  What happens next?

• 9 comparing 2 signed versions of a popular story, indicating their preference for one version over the other and explaining why
• 10 drawing a personal interpretation of a VV description of a character’s appearance
• 11 viewing performances by Deaf theatre companies and/or signed theatre performances and expressing their reactions using NMFs to show changing emotions such as anticipation, fear or relief
• 12 demonstrating understanding of a narrative through retelling or enacting or using DSs, focusing on the importance of eye gaze and role shift in CAs, when responding to the text

Related Achievement Standards