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AC9L1F6U03: Year 5 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding systems of language
AC9L1F6U03 Year 5 Languages

AC9L1F6U03 – Year 5 Languages: Understanding systems of language

Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding systems of language

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.

Content Descriptor

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

Elaborations

  • • 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
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    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]

  • • 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
  • • explaining their own or others' artwork or visual representations of stories, through labelling or describing metaphors or symbols
  • • 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
  • • linking ideas using appropriate grammatical forms, for example, connectives, serialisation and embedding

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 5 ASLANFALFLLY56
Year 5 Languages Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 6, students initiate and use strategies to maintain interactions in [Language] language that are related to their experiences and views. They collaborate in spoken and written activities that involve the language of planning and problem-solving to share information, preferences and ideas. They use strategies to locate and interpret information and ideas in texts. They demonstrate understanding by responding in [Language] or English, adjusting their response to context, purpose and audience. They create texts, selecting and using a range of vocabulary and sentence structures to suit context. They sequence information and ideas, and use conventions appropriate to text type. Students apply rules of pronunciation and intonation in spoken [Language] to enhance fluency. They apply conventions of spelling and punctuation, and use modelled structures, when creating and responding in [Language]. They compare language structures and features in [Language] and English, using some metalanguage. They reflect on the importance of maintaining and strengthening [Language] and the protocols associated with language reclamation and revitalisation. They show understanding of how language reflects cultural practices and consider how this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.