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AC9L2AU2C05: Year 1 Languages Content Descriptor – Creating text in Auslan
AC9L2AU2C05 Year 1 Languages

AC9L2AU2C05 – Year 1 Languages: Creating text in Auslan

Strand
Communicating meaning in Auslan
Substrand
Creating text in Auslan

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.

Content Descriptor

with support, create signed, visual and multimodal texts, using modelled fingerspelling (FS), lexical signs, depicting signs (DSs), non-manual features (NMFs) and signing space

Elaborations

  • • contributing to a presentation such as a class video, by signing a simple description of their family, pets or class members
  • • recording and presenting a video about aspects of their daily routines, using modelled signs and visual prompts
  • • describing their favourite places and activities in a presentation, using pictures, photos or objects
  • • matching bilingual captions/labels to images of First Nations Country/Place locations in their local area or elsewhere in Australia
  • • using modelled iconic and DSs to create variations to actions involved in familiar stories such as ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’, for example, adding alternative food items
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    creating sequences of signs, using a fixed handshape such as the index finger ‘point’, for example,

    YOU THINK I SHY?

    You think I’m shy?

  • • using gestures and modelled signs to create short skits that convey emotions and behaviours associated with characters from familiar texts
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  • • enacting the movements and characteristics of a particular animal, through the use of constructed action (CA)
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    creating and using handshape images to represent signs and label with words, for example, flat hand =

    FISH

    , five =

    TREE

    , claw =

    SPIDER

    , ok =

    BEE

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 1 ASLANAUSSLLF10Y12
Year 1 Languages Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 2, students use Auslan to interact and share information related to the classroom and themselves. They use cues to respond to questions and instructions, and use simple formulaic language. They locate and convey key items of information in texts using non-verbal, visual and contextual cues to help make meaning. They use familiar signs and modelled language, including some fingerspelling (FS), lexical signs, depicting signs (DSs), non-manual features (NMFs) and signing space, to create texts. Students imitate the parameters of signs. They demonstrate understanding that Auslan has conventions and rules for signing. They give examples of similarities and differences between some features of Auslan and English. They understand that language is connected with culture and identity, and notice how this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.