AC9L1F6U03 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.

compare some [Language] language structures and features with those of English, using some familiar metalanguage

Elaborations

• 1 working with a range of text types, for example, listening to interviews of Elders’ stories, connecting these with a timeline and reading a matching biography
• 2

  developing metalanguage for talking about language, such as noun phrases, prefixes, suffixes and transitivity, for example, understanding ways of approaching verbs such as I sit, you sit, they sit, we sit (exclusive and inclusive) or equivalent as appropriate in [Language]

• 3 distinguishing the purpose and reason for a range of texts such as different types of archived language texts, for example, dictionaries with recordings of words, stories and their translations, grammar guides or children’s books
• 4 explaining their own or others' artwork or visual representations of stories, through labelling or describing metaphors or symbols
• 5 recognising language features typically associated with familiar texts, for example, the use of imperatives in games, instructions and procedures, and the use of past tense in traditional narratives and recounts
• 6 linking ideas using appropriate grammatical forms, for example, connectives, serialisation and embedding

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