AC9L2AU6U01 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.

apply knowledge of signs, pace and signing space to develop fluency in familiar contexts

Elaborations

• 1

  identifying body-anchored signs, such as

  HEAD

  or

  HAND

  , and signs that are not body-anchored, such as

  HAVE

  or

  STOP

  , and understanding that non-body-anchored signs can be located in space around the signer

• 2 identifying where a signer has established a location in space, for example, through pointing, non-body-anchored signs, verb movement changes, or use of referents
• 3 noticing that in a suite of connected signing, a sign will often be produced differently to the way it is shown in a dictionary
• 4 recognising the different handshapes used by each hand in 2-handed signs
• 5 recognising the use of dominant and non-dominant hands in other Auslan users
• 6 identifying some NMFs in a signed text such as movements of the eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth, cheeks, shoulders and body
• 7 signing at a constant speed with pauses for emphasis, for example, when recounting an event or giving instructions
• 8 using some patterning in non-lexicalised fingerspelling
• 9

  applying variations in iconic signs such as

  BANANA

  , which can be the iconic shape or the movement of peeling

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