AC9L2F2U01 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 that [Language] has an oral tradition; and reproduce the sounds and rhythms of [Language]

Elaborations

• 1 using a table of consonants and vowels to read [Language] aloud
• 2 noticing similar sounds between [Language], English and/or other known language(s)
• 3

  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

• 4 copying teacher pronunciation of short vowels in [Language]
• 5 recognising the sounds and syllables of familiar spoken words, for example, jumping, clapping or drumming along to words with a different number of syllables
• 6 using picture flashcards to play games focusing on pronunciation
• 7 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
• 8 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]
• 9 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

Related Achievement Standards