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AC9LC2U02: Year 1 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding systems of language
AC9LC2U02 Year 1 Languages

AC9LC2U02 – Year 1 Languages: Understanding systems of language

Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
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.

Content Descriptor

recognise that Chinese components and/or characters are used to construct meaning in texts

Elaborations

  • • making and copying components and/or characters from playdough, strings, found objects, blocks and chalk
  • • making connections among characters sharing the same radicals, such as water 氵 in 河, 池, 海, and discussing ways to minimise water-use in daily life
  • • viewing different ways Chinese can be written, vertically or horizontally, and comparing this with texts in other scripts, especially languages within the class, such as Arabic, Japanese and Hindi
  • • making connections between words sharing a common syllable/morpheme, for example, 小狗, 小猫, 小朋友
  • • replacing words in modelled sentences to express a personal meaning, for example, replacing 弟弟 in 我有弟弟 with 妹妹 to say 我有妹妹
  • • building new words by combining familiar meanings, for example, 红+苹果
  • • copying and tracing components and/or characters with attention to stroke order, using air gestures, chalk, writing in sand and mini whiteboards, or using a different colour for each stroke to create rainbow writing
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  • • differentiating Chinese characters from other forms of written expression, such as the Roman alphabet and other languages present within the class, for example, Korean, Japanese or Arabic

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 1 ASLANCHISLF10Y12
Year 1 Languages Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 2, students use Chinese language to interact and share information related to the classroom and themselves. They use cues to respond to questions and instructions, and use simple formulaic language. They locate and convey key items of information in texts using non-verbal, visual and contextual cues to help make meaning. They use familiar words and modelled language to create text. They copy some familiar characters and Pinyin.Students imitate the sounds, tones and rhythms of Chinese. They demonstrate understanding that Chinese has rules for non-verbal communication, pronunciation and writing, and that characters are a form of writing and Pinyin reflects the sounds of spoken Chinese. They give examples of similarities and differences between some features of Chinese and English. They understand that language is connected with culture, and notice how this is reflected in their own language(s) and culture(s).