AC9LA2U01 – Year 1 Languages: Understanding systems of language

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.

Elaborations

• 1 mimicking the 28 letter sounds of the alphabet and the 3 short and long vowels
• 2 observing the mouth and tongue position when forming sounds such as خ، ح، ث، ذ
• 3 playing with sounds such as onomatopoeia, for example, animal noises, بق بق بيق
• 4

  putting 2 fingers on the throat to help produce the sound of letters أ ، هـ ، ع ، ح ، غ ، خ

• 5

  repeating the names of letters and reproducing their sounds with the short vowel ‘a’ ‘fat-aa الفتحة’, for example, ضاد – ضَ، صاد – صَ، قاف - قَ

• 6 listening to a sound and circling the corresponding Arabic letter in a range of games such as snap, matching cards or ‘sound bingo’
• 7

  developing pronunciation, phrasing and intonation skills by singing, reciting and repeating frequently used words and phrases, noticing that statements and questions have different intonation, for example, غناء الحروف ، غناء الأرقام

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