AC9L1F6C02 Years 5 to 6 Languages

Content descriptor participate in activities that involve planning and negotiating with others, using language that expresses information, preferences and ideas

Elaborations

• • Elaboration teaching younger children, under the guidance of Elders and/or community members, how to prepare food, make different traditional tools, or weave a basket
• • Elaboration collaboratively planning a new indoor or outdoor game to play, using [Language] to negotiate rules and to teach others how to play
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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)
• • Elaboration contributing to national and local celebrations and significant events, for example, NAIDOC Week, National Reconciliation Week, Harmony Day, Mabo Day and Children’s Day
• • Elaboration preparing for tests, in pairs or groups, by playing games based on revision questions and providing feedback and advice to each other when necessary
• • Elaboration 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

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• • Elaboration using a list of previously-learnt appropriate questions in [Language] to participate in respectful discussions with Elders and/or community members