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AC9L1AU8EC05 Years 7 to 8 Languages

AC9L1AU8EC05 | Years 7 to 8 Auslan: Creating text in Auslan

Content Descriptor

Content descriptor create signed, visual and multimodal informative and imaginative texts using modelled fingerspelling (FS), lexical signs, depicting signs (DSs), non-manual features (NMFs) and signing space

First language learners · Years 7 to 10 sequence

The Years 7 to 10 Auslan sequence is shared by first and second language learners.

Strand
Communicating meaning in Auslan
Substrand
Creating text in Auslan

This content descriptor sets out learning for Years 7 to 8 Auslan · First language learners · Years 7 to 10 sequence. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Elaborations

  • • Elaboration recounting events from the weekend or a special occasion, demonstrating sequencing
  • • Elaboration designing a multimodal presentation to explain home or school routines, or the school events at a school camp or sports day
  • • Elaboration sharing information from their home or local community using visual infographics or diagrams, for example, family traditions or cultural events
  • • Elaboration creating an advertisement in Auslan to promote travel to a significant cultural First Nations Country/Place location, including what to see and do
  • • Elaboration creating and comparing individual biographies, including elements such as family origins, traditions, beliefs and experiences, and considering how these influence their sense of identity
  • • Elaboration re-enacting short simple real-life scenarios that include 2 characters and their interactions, through the use of CAs and depiction
  • • Elaboration designing a procedural text for the class, such as a simple recipe or instruction guide, using list buoys
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  • • Elaboration creating a promotional signed text about a national or international event or celebration, such as an important national Deaf community event or an upcoming international sport event
  • • Elaboration creating short sequences of signs using a fixed handshape, such as the index finger ‘point’, for example, PRO1 SEE PT+f SNAKE! DS:TRAVEL-ON-GROUND DS:WIND-UP-TOP-TREE I saw a snake on the ground over there. The snake then slithered across and up to the top of the tree.
  • • Elaboration using simple VV strategies to recreate and re-enact a short scenario about an imaginary character and a particular object, using size and space specifiers (SASSs), CAs, entity and handling DSs, aspect, manner, NMFs, for example, after viewing the opening sequence of 'The lion king' with cinematic signing (ASL)
  • • Elaboration developing digital glossaries of new sign vocabulary which can be used to share their personal learning or as a resource

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