AC9L2AU6C03 Year 5 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 5 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.

locate and process information and ideas in a range of signed, visual and multimodal texts, and respond in different ways to suit purpose

Elaborations

• 1 identifying key information in procedural or descriptive Auslan texts and responding to signed comprehension questions, for example, watching a signed video about the water cycle and then participating in a game show style quiz to answer questions
• 2 collecting information from peers about interests, preferences and routines, and presenting findings to the class using visual supports/graphic organisers, for example, presenting about how students get to school each day
• 3 paraphrasing the content of selected Auslan texts such as community announcements and relaying the information to others
• 4 reading or viewing First Nations Australian authors’ stories in Auslan or English and comparing words, formulaic expressions and sentences
• 5 finding information about events such as a meeting to discuss creating more community green spaces or details of an upcoming Deaf community event and creating a signed advertisement or promotional video with English captions
• 6 viewing a narrative signed text and responding by drawing a storyboard that identifies and sequences key events
• 7 viewing Auslan stories and providing a signed summary of the plot, main characters and key message of the story
• 8 comparing different kinds of Deaf expression, such as handshape poems or art, indicating with which they connect more and why
• 9 engaging with different examples of Deaf humour, such as Deaf jokes, and comparing them with examples of humour in spoken English or in silent films or mime

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