AC9L2F2C01 Year 1 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 1 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.

recognise and respond to modelled greetings, instructions and routines; and personal introductions

Elaborations

• 1 introducing and describing self, family, friends, pets, and totems where appropriate, using familiar and modelled language supported by visual props such as drawings and photos, for example, creating self-profiles with a family tree
• 2 participating in everyday exchanges, such as greeting and interacting with the teaching team and using appropriate behaviours, silences and forms of address to show respect to visiting Elders and/or community members
• 3

  listening to questions such as what, who, where questions about self, family, friends and the immediate environment, and responding with words and actions including gestures

• 4 participating in routine classroom or on Country/Place exchanges, such as responding to the class roll, asking and answering questions, making requests and beginning to express opinions appropriately
• 5 using language and/or gestures to express gratitude, appreciation or equivalent as appropriate in [Language]
• 6

  using some spontaneous expressions with peers such as, But why?, Oh no! or equivalent as appropriate in [Language]

• 7 developing words and phrases for talking about being on Country/Place or at school
• 8 using [Language] to describe feelings, for example, using modelled language from a word wall to label faces to describe how they are feeling

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