AC9L1AU4C05
Years 3 to 4
Languages
AC9L1AU4C05 | Years 3 to 4 Auslan: Creating text in Auslan
Content Descriptor
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
First language learners · Foundation to Year 10 sequence
Strand
Communicating meaning in Auslan
Substrand
Creating text in Auslan
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 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
- • Elaboration 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
- • Elaboration 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'
- • Elaboration creating simple descriptions in Auslan and matching them to appropriate First Nations Country/Place locations in their local area or elsewhere in Australia
- • Elaboration creating card games to play with peers that contain pictures, labels and signs, for example, cards relating to different forms of transport
- • Elaboration creating an informative video for younger peers, identifying the Auslan signs and putting them into handshape categories
- • Elaboration 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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- • Elaboration 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
- • Elaboration performing stories for a live audience or community festival with a focus on NMFs to express emotion and humour
- • Elaboration participating in storytelling games or imaginative activities, for example, the joint construction of a progressive story
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