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AC9L2AU4C02: Year 3 Languages Content Descriptor – Interacting in Auslan
AC9L2AU4C02 Year 3 Languages

AC9L2AU4C02 – Year 3 Languages: Interacting in Auslan

Strand
Communicating meaning in Auslan
Substrand
Interacting in Auslan

This Content Descriptor from Year 3 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

participate in activities that involve planning with others, using a range of familiar phrases and modelled structures

Elaborations

  • working together in collaborative tasks such as craft activities, using interactional phrases, for example,

    PLEASE PRO2 BRING SCISSORS PAPER?

    Can you please bring scissors and paper?

  • following and giving directions for activities such as a treasure hunt, using prepositions and entity DSs, for example,

    DS:TURN-LEFT DEAD-END DS:TURN-RIGHT

    Go left, then at the end turn right.

    DS:OPEN-DOOR PT+f DS:WALK-THROUGH

    Open the door and walk through.

  • responding to and giving classroom instructions, for example,

    PLEASE WITH TWO DS:SIT-OPPOSITE

    Please find a partner and sit opposite each other.

    DS:LINE-UP PLEASE

    Line up, please.

    DS:LOOK-AT PRO1

    Look at me.

  • playing games such as board games, negotiating turn-taking, for example,

    LBUOY(1):PRO1 FIRST LBUOY(2):NEXT LBUOY(3):NEXT

    It’s my turn first, then your turn and then yours.

  • negotiating roles and responsibilities in shared learning activities, using expressions such as

    PRO3 TYPE PRO1 WRITE PRO2 WHAT?

    He will type, I’ll write, and what are you doing?

  • participating in Auslan games using simple clauses in creative ways, for example, playing the improvisation game 'Space jump' or 'Charades'
  • playing games that involve identifying and classifying specific points of information, for example, 'Celebrity heads'
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  • maintaining eye contact when communicating and using backchannels, for example, head nodding to indicate understanding, or raised eyebrows or head shaking to indicate lack of understanding
  • using expressions of support, encouragement or praise during shared activities, for example,

    GOOD, EXCELLENT, CONGRATULATIONS

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 3 ASLANAUSSLLF10Y34
Year 3 Languages Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 4, students use Auslan to initiate structured interactions to share information related to the classroom and their personal worlds. They use familiar language to participate in activities that involve planning. They locate and respond to key items of information in texts, using strategies to help interpret and convey meaning in familiar contexts. They use modelled language and basic syntax, including familiar fingerspelling (FS), lexical signs, depicting signs (DSs), non-manual features (NMFs) and signing space, to create texts. Students use modelled combinations of signs and demonstrate understanding that Auslan has language conventions and rules to create and make meaning. They identify patterns in Auslan and make comparisons between Auslan and English. They understand that Auslan is connected with culture and identity, and identify how this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.