AC9L1AU4U01 – Year 3 Languages: Understanding systems of language

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.

Elaborations

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  using the 5 major locations of signs on the body or in space, and identifying signs associated with each, such as

  SEE

  (head/face),

  SAY

  (mouth/chin),

  WHY

  (chest),

  TALK

  (hand) and

  ONE

  (signing space)

• • understanding that NMFs are an element of a sign and are used to show emotional states as well as demonstrating emphasis, weight, exertion, proximity, texture and speed, for example, puffed cheeks to demonstrate heaviness of an object being carried
• •

  noticing the orientation of handshapes in signs by focusing on a handshape of the week, such as a pointer handshape, and linking with lexicalised signs like

  BOY, THINK, PEOPLE

• •

  identifying and demonstrating compound signs and recognising the HOLM and NMF of signs to create new meaning, for example, the sign

  RED + BALL = TOMATO

• •

  distinguishing between single-handed signs such as

  MUM, SON,

  2-handed signs such as

  BOOK, CHURCH,

  and double-handed signs such as

  TOILET, CONFUSE

  and

  TOMATO

• • using pace and speed to demonstrate anticipation and/or to enhance storytelling
• • recognising the pattern and describing how the movement changes between groups of related numbers, for example, 5, 15, 50, fifth

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard: