AC9L2AU2U02 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.

recognise that signs and features of language are used to construct meaning in Auslan

Elaborations

• 1 recognising that there is range of signing space in signed interactions
• 2 identifying and indicating how people or things in the classroom can be represented by DSs, for example, point can mean a person, a ruler can be long or short
• 3 noticing that there can be one or more referents in an Auslan text
• 4 showing understanding that proper nouns can have a sign name, a lexical sign or can be fingerspelled
• 5

  identifying verb signs

  SIT, EAT, FEEL, HAVE

  and recognising that they are central to a clause

• 6

  noticing there is no equivalent for the verb ‘to be’ in Auslan, for example,

  PRO1 COLD

  I am cold.

• 7

  practising the signing of examples of adjectives that describe nouns in different ways, such as how they look (

  BIG

  or

  RED

  ), feel (

  SOFT

  or

  HOT

  ), smell (

  SMELLY

  ) or sound (

  LOUD

  )

• 8

  understanding how to create complete sentences through movement within signs, for example,

  FINISHED CALL PRO3 (sign moves from the signer to referent)

  I called him.

  PRO2 HELP PRO3(PL) (the sign HELP moves from the referent location to the signer’s body, expressing that the help was given to them)

  You helped them.

• 9

  recognising simple time markers without numeral incorporation, for example,

  TODAY, TOMORROW, NEXT-WEEK

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