AC9L2AU2C05 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.

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

• 1 contributing to a presentation such as a class video, by signing a simple description of their family, pets or class members
• 2 recording and presenting a video about aspects of their daily routines, using modelled signs and visual prompts
• 3 describing their favourite places and activities in a presentation, using pictures, photos or objects
• 4 matching bilingual captions/labels to images of First Nations Country/Place locations in their local area or elsewhere in Australia
• 5 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
• 6

  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?

• 7 using gestures and modelled signs to create short skits that convey emotions and behaviours associated with characters from familiar texts
• 8 enacting the movements and characteristics of a particular animal, through the use of constructed action (CA)
• 9

  creating and using handshape images to represent signs and label with words, for example, flat hand =

  FISH

  , five =

  TREE

  , claw =

  SPIDER

  , ok =

  BEE

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