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AC9L1F4U01: Year 3 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding systems of language
AC9L1F4U01 Year 3 Languages

AC9L1F4U01 – Year 3 Languages: Understanding systems of language

Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
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.

Content Descriptor

use combinations of sounds, pronunciation and intonation patterns of [Language] to form words and phrases

Elaborations

  • • recognising that there are constraints in the ways speech sounds may be ordered to form words, for example, sounds allowed at the beginnings and ends of words in prefixes and suffixes, or consonants that may cluster together
  • • noticing the role of parts of the mouth, nose and throat in the production of speech sounds
  • • linking written morphemes, words and phrases with the spoken forms of [Language]
  • • reading, reciting or retelling Creation, Dreamtime, Dreaming or traditional stories, with a focus on pronunciation
  • • linking written devices/techniques to spoken differentiation among statements, questions, requests and exclamations, as well as to beginnings, pauses and ends
  • • using knowledge of sound-symbol correspondence to read syllables and familiar words, phrases, sentences and extended texts aloud
  • • using morphemes and syllabification to break up simple words and using visual memory to write more complex or less familiar words
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  • • identifying different uses of commas in texts, including to separate clauses and items in a list, and associating this with pauses when reading connected text
  • • paying attention to consistency in spelling, checking spelling using dictionaries (if available) and other sources such as linguists or Elders and/or community members

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

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Year 3 Languages Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 4, students use [Language] language to initiate structured interactions to share information related to Country/Place, the learning environment and their personal worlds. They use familiar language to participate in spoken and written activities that involve planning and transacting. They locate and respond to key items of information in texts, using strategies to help interpret and convey meaning in familiar contexts. They use familiar and formulaic language, and basic syntax, to create texts. Students use the sounds, pronunciation and intonation patterns of spoken [Language]. They demonstrate understanding that [Language] has non-verbal, spoken and written language conventions and rules to create and make meaning. They recognise that some terms have cultural meanings. They identify patterns in [Language] and make comparisons between [Language] and English. They understand that the [Language] language is passed down from generation to generation by its Custodians and is connected with culture and identity. They identify how this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.