AC9L2AU4U01 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.

recognise and use modelled combinations of signs such as handshape, orientation, location, movement (HOLM) and non-manual features (NMFs) to form signed words and phrases

Elaborations

• 1

  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)

• 2

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

  ON

  or

  TRUE

• 3

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

  KNOW

  or

  THINK

• 4 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
• 5 using chosen hands consistently, as dominant and subordinate hands
• 6 practising signing at a constant speed with pauses to indicate the end of a phrase
• 7

  using fingerspelling as a bridge to English such as familiar lexicalised fingerspelled signs, for example,

  FS:MON

  Monday

• 8

  recognising that changing the movement changes the meaning, for example,

  TEACHER

• 9

  comparing iconic signs to the visual images and/or movements of referents, such as

  DRINK, MONKEY

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