AC9L2AU6C05 Years 5 to 6 Languages

Content descriptor create and present a range of informative and imaginative signed, visual and multimodal texts using a variety of modelled structures to sequence information and ideas, and using fingerspelling (FS), lexical signs, depicting signs (DSs), non-manual features (NMFs) and signing space, appropriate to text type

Elaborations

• • Elaboration presenting information in Auslan to the wider school community, for example, a short skit to promote healthy habits, Harmony Day in the school, promoting community events such as a Deaf Festival or an upcoming swimming carnival using visual support
• • Elaboration assembling a signed information pack about their school to support newly arrived deaf students, including a signed glossary of key people and places and simple directions to navigate the school website
• • Elaboration explaining a favourite game, highlighting key Auslan terms and supporting information with pictures, gestures and demonstrations
• • Elaboration creating a class presentation or video, locating and describing, in Auslan, a specific First Nations Country/Place location in a local or regional context, or elsewhere in Australia
• • Elaboration planning, rehearsing and delivering short presentations about a topic of their choice, taking into account context, purpose and audience, for example, promoting recycling or a dream holiday
• • Elaboration creating the next scene, a new character or an alternative ending for a signed fable, short story or cartoon
• • Elaboration creating and performing an adaptation of a story with 2 or more characters, using elements of CAs such as eye-gaze change, body shift and head orientation change