AC9L2AU6C05 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.

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

• 1 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
• 2 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
• 3 explaining a favourite game, highlighting key Auslan terms and supporting information with pictures, gestures and demonstrations
• 4 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
• 5 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
• 6 creating the next scene, a new character or an alternative ending for a signed fable, short story or cartoon
• 7 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

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