AC9L2F4U03 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 familiar [Language] language features and compare with those of English, in known contexts

Elaborations

• 1 discussing differences between spoken and written texts
• 2 developing metalanguage for talking about language, for example, noun, adjective and tense, using resources from both [Language] and English
• 3 distinguishing the purpose of a text and its features, for example, a local story to teach a lesson with a beginning, middle and end, or a problem with a solution, or a seasonal calendar to teach knowledge of Country/Place
• 4 recognising language features such as metaphors and symbols typically associated with familiar texts, for example, using directional features in [Language] in a seasonal calendar or noticing how metaphors in stories relate to the meaning
• 5 investigating the purpose and use of gestures or hand signs in [Language], English and/or other known language(s), for example, using eye contact lip, mouth and chin to gesture towards another person
• 6 comparing and matching key words in [Language] and English, for example, using a word wall or playing word-matching activities
• 7 comparing how ideas are linked using appropriate grammatical forms in [Language] and English

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