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AC9L1AU4C05: Year 3 Languages Content Descriptor – Creating text in Auslan
AC9L1AU4C05 Year 3 Languages

AC9L1AU4C05 – Year 3 Languages: Creating text in Auslan

Strand
Communicating meaning in Auslan
Substrand
Creating text in Auslan

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

create and present informative and imaginative signed, visual and multimodal texts, using fingerspelling (FS), lexical signs, depicting signs (DSs), non-manual features (NMFs), signing space, formulaic expressions and modelled textual conventions

Elaborations

  • • planning and rehearsing a presentation of factual information at a school assembly, for example, information about significant events such as the National Week of Deaf People or Harmony Day, using visual supports such as a timeline
  • • creating and presenting an informative video about their school to support newly arrived deaf students, using Auslan and visuals, including a signed glossary of the most relevant signs
  • • explaining a favourite computer game, sport or playground game to a younger audience, highlighting key terms and supporting the information with pictures, gestures and demonstrated actions, for example, teaching how to play handball or 'Duck, duck, goose'
  • • creating simple descriptions in Auslan and matching them to appropriate First Nations Country/Place locations in their local area or elsewhere in Australia
  • • creating card games to play with peers that contain pictures, labels and signs, for example, cards relating to different forms of transport
  • • creating an informative video for younger peers, identifying the Auslan signs and putting them into handshape categories
  • • conveying information, such as a digital report in a school newsletter, about cultural events, for example, an excursion to a Deaf event/school, Auslan Day, a deaf visitor or about local community, national or international events such as Anzac Day or Chinese New Year
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  • • creating a short signed performance by experimenting and adapting key elements of a popular picture book or humorous story, using elements of CA such as role shift and eye gaze, NMFs, signing space and signing techniques, according to characters
  • • performing stories for a live audience or community festival with a focus on NMFs to express emotion and humour
  • • participating in storytelling games or imaginative activities, for example, the joint construction of a progressive story

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.