AC9L2F6U03 Year 5 Languages

AC9L2F6U03 – Year 5 Languages: Understanding systems of language

Strand

Understanding language and culture

Substrand

Understanding systems of language

This Content Descriptor from Year 5 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

compare some [Language] language structures and features with those of English, using some familiar metalanguage

Elaborations

• working with a range of text types, for example, listening to interviews with Elders and/or community members, connecting these with a timeline and reading a short matching biography
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developing metalanguage for talking about language, such as noun phrases, prefixes and suffixes, for example, understanding ways of approaching verbs such as I sit, you sit, they sit, we sit (exclusive and inclusive) or equivalent if appropriate in [Language]
• distinguishing the purpose and reason for a range of texts such as different types of archived language texts, for example, dictionaries with recordings of words, stories and their translations, grammar guides or children’s books
• explaining their own or others' artwork or visual representations of stories, through labelling or describing metaphors or symbols
• discussing loan words that have been incorporated from other languages to describe new concepts, for example, engineered words to describe technological innovations such as computer, skyscraper and car
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discussing the etymology of words and comparing with English, such as starfish in [Language] and English, or placenames that have been taken from [Language] and changed
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building sentences with an understanding of word order, using verbs, nouns, adjectives and adverbs, for example, The dog has a short tail. The dog is black and hairy., in [Language] as appropriate

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 5 ASLANFALSLLY56

Year 5 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 6, students initiate and use strategies to maintain interactions in [Language] language that are related to their immediate environment. They collaborate in spoken and written activities that involve the language of planning and problem-solving to share information, preferences and ideas. They use strategies to locate and interpret information and ideas in texts. They demonstrate understanding by responding in [Language] or English, adjusting their response to context, purpose and audience. They create texts, selecting and using a variety of vocabulary and sentence structures to suit context. They sequence information and ideas, and use conventions appropriate to text type. Students apply rules of pronunciation and intonation in spoken [Language]. They apply conventions of spelling and punctuation, and use modelled structures, when creating and responding in [Language]. They compare language structures and features in [Language] and English, using some metalanguage. They show understanding of why language should be revived following the appropriate protocols, and how some language reflects cultural practices. They consider how this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.