AC9L1F4U03 Year 3 Languages

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.

recognise familiar [Language] language features and compare with those of English, in known contexts

Elaborations

• 1 becoming familiar with the conventions of a range of text types, for example, narratives, reports and instructions
• 2 distinguishing the purpose of a text and its features, for example, a local story to teach a lesson with a beginning, middle and end, or a problem with a solution, or a seasonal calendar to teach knowledge of Country/Place and Peoples
• 3 recognising language features such as metaphors and symbols typically associated with familiar texts, for example, using directional features in [Language] in a seasonal calendar or noticing how metaphors in stories relate back to the meaning
• 4 investigating the purpose and use of gestures and hand signs, for example, for hunting, for recently bereaved, for communicating at a distance, and for restricting who can understand the message
• 5 identifying differences between spoken and written texts, for example, comparing a written story with a spoken version of the same story

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