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AC9L2F2U01: Year 1 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding systems of language
AC9L2F2U01 Year 1 Languages

AC9L2F2U01 – Year 1 Languages: Understanding systems of language

Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding systems of language

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.

Content Descriptor

recognise that [Language] has an oral tradition; and reproduce the sounds and rhythms of [Language]

Elaborations

  • • using a table of consonants and vowels to read [Language] aloud
  • • noticing similar sounds between [Language], English and/or other known language(s)
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    noticing alphabet sounds that do not exist in English, for example, the rolling r sound, ng at the start of the word or dh in some different Aboriginal languages and Torres Strait Islander languages

  • • copying teacher pronunciation of short vowels in [Language]
  • • recognising the sounds and syllables of familiar spoken words, for example, jumping, clapping or drumming along to words with a different number of syllables
  • • using picture flashcards to play games focusing on pronunciation
  • • recognising when original [Language] is being spoken or if a word has come from an English word, for example, playing a game where the students stand up when the word is an original word in [Language] and sit down when the word is from English
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  • • experimenting with sound patterns in songs and noticing how words and expressions can be separated into syllables to fit different tunes and rhythms, for example, playing with pronunciation from a story such as ‘The River’ or ‘Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?’ adapted in [Language]
  • • learning that writing systems represent sounds and meanings, for example, strengthening familiarity with sound-symbol relationships and experimenting with onomatopoeia and alliteration by reading texts aloud

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 1 ASLANFALSLLY12
Year 1 Languages Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 2, students use [Language] language to interact and share information related to Country/Place, the classroom and themselves. They use cues to respond to questions and instructions, and use simple formulaic language. They locate and convey key items of information in texts using non-verbal, visual and contextual cues to help make meaning. They use familiar words and modelled language to create texts. Students reproduce the sounds and rhythms of spoken [Language]. They demonstrate understanding that [Language] has conventions and rules for non-verbal communication, pronunciation and writing. They give examples of similarities and differences between some features of [Language] and English. They understand that [Language] belongs to Country/Place and Peoples, and is connected with their culture, and notice how this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.