AC9L2F4U02 Year 3 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.

recognise [Language] language conventions, grammatical structures and basic syntax, in familiar texts and contexts

Elaborations

• 1 noticing patterns in languages, such as free and fixed word order and tenses in verbs, and making sentences without verbs
• 2

  adding a suffix to a verb to describe the number of people doing the action in simple sentences, for example, creating and completing a table to show variation in suffixes for verbs in [Language], such as I sing, you sing, they sing, we sing, or equivalent as appropriate in [Language]

• 3

  using pronouns and possessives, for example, he/his, she/her or you/your or equivalent as appropriate in [Language]

• 4 recognising collective nouns for family members to describe kinship and documenting in a word chart
• 5 adjusting words using prefixes and suffixes
• 6

  using repetition to express adverbs, intensifying meaning or to express plurality, for example, saying sick twice can mean you are very sick

• 7

  recognising temporal expressions, before, after, soon or equivalent as appropriate in [Language] and completing a quiz to practise

• 8

  using modelled expressions of frequency, for example, often, always, once, briefly or equivalent as appropriate in [Language] to complete an information-gap activity

• 9

  recognising and using modelled locational cases such as in, at, near, besides, to, from or equivalent as appropriate in [Language], for example, giving directions or labelling a picture in a mapping activity or treasure hunt

• 10

  recognising and using imperatives in games, instructions and procedures, for example, listening to and following classroom instructions in [Language] or playing games such as saying, Take your turn in [Language]

• 11 using simple conjunctions to join 2 sentences in [Language]

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