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AC9L2AUF01 | Foundation Auslan

Content Descriptor

Content descriptor with support, recognise and communicate meaning in Auslan

Second language learners · Foundation to Year 10 sequence

This content descriptor sets out learning for Foundation Auslan · Second language learners · Foundation to Year 10 sequence. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Elaborations

  • • Elaboration greeting others using appropriate forms of address, for example, HELLO, GOOD MORNING, GOOD AFTERNOON , and use of sign names where appropriate
  • • Elaboration participating in routine exchanges such as expressing thanks, asking to go to the bathroom or get a drink, and describing the day’s weather, for example, raising hand or waving when attending to roll call, saying PLEASE, THANK-YOU, GOOD, TODAY WEATHER SUN
  • • Elaboration responding to and using visual cues such as pointing, eye contact and body language
  • • Elaboration following classroom instructions that include simple DSs for completing activities, such as DS:SIT-CIRCLE Sit in a circle. DS:LINE-UP Line up. DS:LOOK-AT PRO1 Look at me.
  • • Elaboration participating in games, and songs, if appropriate, that involve the use of repeated phrases, expressions, actions and NMFs, for example, 'I spy', 'Fruit salad' or the 'ABC Auslan song'
  • • Elaboration responding to Auslan texts such as stories and poems, through play-acting or movement, illustrating characters, events or scenes
  • • Elaboration using Auslan numbers 0–10, for example, sorting counters into groups and counting objects
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  • • Elaboration participating in simple dialogues in Auslan through role-play, for example, playing shops using classroom objects such as toys and books, and practising simple phrases, for example, PRO1 WANT, PRO1 WANT-NOT, YES, NO, PRO1 LIKE, PRO1 LIKE-NOT
  • • Elaboration showing emotions using NMFs, for example, responding to visual prompts and modifying emotions each time, such as being happy, sad, angry or tired
  • • Elaboration shadowing parts of a simple Auslan story

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