AC9L2AU2C04 Year 1 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 1 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.

notice that language carries cultural meaning in classroom-related greetings, introductions, instructions and routines

Elaborations

• 1 creating a word wall or poster, comparing the iconicity of some simple signs in terms of their similarity to the object/referent, for example, drink, food, kangaroo
• 2

  explaining why they like a chosen sign or expression, for example,

  DOG, CAT, BIRD

• 3 making own bilingual Auslan-English picture dictionaries with labels, images or recordings of signs, for example, posters or cards with pictures to learn the signs for familiar objects, classroom items or daily activities
• 4 noticing that in signed languages meaning can be expressed in different ways, for example, with signs or fingerspelling
• 5

  translating simple Auslan signs for peers, by fingerspelling or writing the English word, for example, distinguishing between signs and fingerspelled version of

  DOG, CAT, BIRD,

  and names, understanding that fingerspelling is a tool for translation between Auslan and English

• 6 considering the meaning behind sign names if appropriate, indicating whether it is related to appearance, personality, a characteristic, story, habit or family

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