AC9L2AU4U01 – Year 3 Languages: Understanding systems of language

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.

Elaborations

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  noticing the 5 major locations of signs on the body or in space, and identifying signs associated with each, such as

  SEE

  (head/face),

  SAY

  (mouth/chin),

  WHY

  (chest),

  TALK

  (hand) and

  ONE

  (signing space)

• •

  recognising that handshapes must be performed in a particular position and that this is called orientation, for example,

  ON

  or

  TRUE

• •

  identifying and demonstrating signs with a change in handshape, such as

  KNOW

  or

  THINK

• • understanding that NMFs can also be an element of a sign and can show emotional states such as a happy expression or grammatical information, for example, a frown to mark a negative
• • using chosen hands consistently, as dominant and subordinate hands
• • practising signing at a constant speed with pauses to indicate the end of a phrase
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  using fingerspelling as a bridge to English such as familiar lexicalised fingerspelled signs, for example,

  FS:MON

  Monday

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard: