AC9L1AU4C03
Years 3 to 4
Languages
AC9L1AU4C03 | Years 3 to 4 Auslan: Mediating meaning in and between languages
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor locate and respond to key information related to familiar content obtained from signed, visual and multimodal texts
First language learners · Foundation to Year 10 sequence
Strand
Communicating meaning in Auslan
Substrand
Mediating meaning in and between languages
This content descriptor sets out learning for Years 3 to 4 Auslan · First language learners · Foundation to Year 10 sequence. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration 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
- • Elaboration 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
- • Elaboration watching an Auslan video explaining the basic rules in a game or sport and following instructions by playing the game
- • Elaboration learning that First Nations Australian languages change according to connections and relationships between people, and giving examples of how this occurs in Auslan
- • Elaboration 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
- • Elaboration watching a story in Auslan and sequencing the events, using visual cues
- • Elaboration 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
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- • Elaboration using CAs and gestures to predict subsequent events in a cartoon or short film clip, answering, for example, NEXT, WHAT? What happens next?
- • Elaboration comparing 2 signed versions of a popular story, indicating their preference for one version over the other and explaining why
- • Elaboration drawing a personal interpretation of a VV description of a character’s appearance
- • Elaboration 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
- • Elaboration 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
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