AC9L1F2C02 Year 1 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 1 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.

participate in a range of guided, play-based language activities, using modelled expressions and visual and spoken cues

Elaborations

• 1 participating in games, tasks and activities that involve turn-taking, guessing, matching and choosing objects, for example, categorising names of students in the class into clans, moieties and other sub-groupings, and where appropriate their affiliations with the natural environment such as saltwater versus freshwater, north wind versus south wind
• 2 participating in action games and songs, for example, sand storytelling or using toy animals to demonstrate or copy stories
• 3 listening to and following guidance from Elders and/or community members, for example, gathering traditional materials such as ochre, nuts, twigs, bark, seeds, shells and feathers and using them to decorate musical instruments or tools, or making bush toys
• 4 working collaboratively on a class performance or activity, for example, creating a performance or video for a school assembly or making a class big book on a specific topic to deliver a key message
• 5 participating in group activities on Country/Place according to the seasonal calendar, for example, learning from Elders and/or community members about the best time to catch certain fish
• 6 practising personal skills such as active listening, and showing self-discipline and respect for others in interactive group situations, for example, playing ‘Pass the secret message’ or playing ‘Aunty says’ with different instructions

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