AC9L1F2U03 – Year 1 Languages: Understanding systems of language

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.

Elaborations

• • recognising that written texts are made up of words, groups of words, and illustrations or images that together make meaning
• • developing language awareness and using metalanguage to describe word types such as nouns and verbs, using available terminology in [Language] as appropriate
• • understanding that texts have a purpose, for example, Creation, Dreamtime, Dreaming or traditional stories, paintings, songs, dances and Country/Place experiences
• • understanding that there are different ways of telling a story, such as Elders yarning and through song, dance, music and associated visual design, and through painting (body, bark, rock, sand)
• • recognising that communication may occur through gestures and hand signs in [Language] and English and/or other known language(s), and these may be the same or different, for example, nodding or using the hand signal for stop or using eyes to tell someone to go or to sit
• • noticing how texts such as storybooks are sequenced and organised in [Language] and English, for example, identifying the main title and connections between pictures and written text
• • understanding that texts may take many forms; that they may be very short texts such as a sign, or quite long texts such as a story, song or multimodal presentation

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard: