AC9L2AU4C05 Year 3 Languages

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.

create and present informative and imaginative signed, visual and multimodal texts, using familiar fingerspelling (FS), lexical signs, depicting signs (DSs), non-manual features (NMFs) and signing space, formulaic expressions and modelled textual conventions

Elaborations

• 1 presenting routine class information such as weather reports or daily schedules, using visual prompts and signed descriptions
• 2 creating signed, multimodal presentations with selected points of information about their home or local community, such as language, family traditions or cultural events, using modelled signs and phrases
• 3 demonstrating a simple procedure such as brushing teeth or making a sandwich, using DSs, gestures, objects and list buoys
• 4 creating simple descriptions in Auslan and matching them to appropriate First Nations Country/Place locations in their local area or elsewhere in Australia
• 5 working with classmates to create a simple story using handshapes
• 6

  assuming the role of a character from a story and creating and performing a dialogue of an imagined interview with questions such as

  POSS2 TRUNK DS:LONG-NOSE WHY?

  Why is your trunk so long, baby elephant?

• 7 creating a humorous skit using CAs
• 8 using a VV description to create an imaginary scene such as a person driving
• 9 participating in storytelling games or imaginative activities, for example, the joint construction of a progressive story

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