AC9L1AU4C03 Year 3 Languages

AC9L1AU4C03 – Year 3 Languages: Mediating meaning in and between languages

Strand

Communicating meaning in Auslan

Substrand

Mediating meaning in and between 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.

Content Descriptor

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

Elaborations

• 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
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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
• watching an Auslan video explaining the basic rules in a game or sport and following instructions by playing the game
• learning that First Nations Australian languages change according to connections and relationships between people, and giving examples of how this occurs in Auslan
• 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
• watching a story in Auslan and sequencing the events, using visual cues
• 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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using CAs and gestures to predict subsequent events in a cartoon or short film clip, answering, for example,
NEXT, WHAT?
What happens next?
• comparing 2 signed versions of a popular story, indicating their preference for one version over the other and explaining why
• drawing a personal interpretation of a VV description of a character’s appearance
• 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
• 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

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 3 ASLANAUSFLLF10Y34

Year 3 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 4, students use Auslan to initiate structured interactions to share information related to the classroom and their personal worlds. They participate in activities that involve planning and transacting. They locate and respond to key items of information in texts, using strategies to help interpret and convey meaning in familiar contexts. They use familiar and formulaic language and basic syntax, including fingerspelling (FS), lexical signs, depicting signs (DSs), non-manual features (NMFs) and signing space, to create texts appropriate to context.Students use combinations of signs and demonstrate understanding that Auslan has language conventions and rules to create and make meaning. They identify patterns in Auslan and make comparisons between Auslan and English. They understand that Auslan is connected with cultural identity, and identify how this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.