AC9L1F6C02 Year 5 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 5 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 activities that involve planning and negotiating with others, using language that expresses information, preferences and ideas

Elaborations

• 1 teaching younger children, under the guidance of Elders and/or community members, how to prepare food, make different traditional tools, or weave a basket
• 2 collaboratively planning a new indoor or outdoor game to play, using [Language] to negotiate rules and to teach others how to play
• 3 writing and recording a story or song about the school to present to others in [Language], working in groups, for example, performing a song in [Language] on an open night
• 4

  engaging in shared tasks, for example, identifying plants around the school and compiling written and recorded information about a particular plant and its uses, for example, recording prepared information in [Language], dictating, "The lomandra plant has parts that are edible. Its seeds can make flour. It is moist and tastes a little like cucumber. It can also be dried and used in weaving." (example from Meriam Mir of the Torres Strait Islands)

• 5 contributing to national and local celebrations and significant events, for example, NAIDOC Week, National Reconciliation Week, Harmony Day, Mabo Day and Children’s Day
• 6 preparing for tests, in pairs or groups, by playing games based on revision questions and providing feedback and advice to each other when necessary
• 7 collaborating with Elders and/or community members about plans to help the community, such as planning to work on the water filter to help the community and school
• 8 using a list of previously-learnt appropriate questions in [Language] to participate in respectful discussions with Elders and/or community members

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