AC9L2F4C04 Year 3 Languages

AC9L2F4C04 – Year 3 Languages: Mediating meaning in and between languages

Strand

Communicating meaning in [Language]

Substrand

Mediating meaning in and between languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 3 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

develop strategies to comprehend and adjust [Language] language in familiar contexts to convey cultural meaning

Elaborations

• reviewing simple translations in [Language] and English, noticing similarities, differences and challenges
• translating parts of texts such as songs or photo stories, using modelled language
• explaining visual designs and performances to others, for example, students listening to and watching Elders perform a traditional dance and then students identifying the cultural meaning
• identifying similar cultural gestures in [Language] and English and/or other known language(s), for example, nodding or shaking your head, thumbs up or down or rolling your eyes when you are not happy with something
• creating a bilingual/multilingual brochure about their community for a visitor, including a map of key features
• creating bilingual/multilingual resources for 'buddy classes', for example, making card games with [Language] on one side and English on the other

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 3 ASLANFALSLLY34

Year 3 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 4, students use [Language] language to initiate structured interactions to share information related to Country/Place, the classroom and their personal worlds. They use modelled language to participate in spoken and written activities that involve planning. They locate and respond to key items of information in texts using strategies to help interpret and convey meaning in familiar contexts. They use modelled language and basic syntax to create texts. Students imitate sound combinations and rhythms of spoken [Language]. They demonstrate understanding that [Language] has non-verbal, spoken and written language conventions and rules to create and make meaning. They recognise that some terms have cultural meanings. They identify patterns in [Language] and make comparisons between [Language] and English. They understand that the [Language] language is passed down from generation to generation by its Custodians and is connected with culture and identity. They identify how this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.