AC9LC2U02
Years 1 to 2
Languages
AC9LC2U02 | Years 1 to 2 Chinese: Understanding systems of language
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor recognise that Chinese components and/or characters are used to construct meaning in texts
Second language learners · Foundation to Year 10 sequence
Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding systems of language
This content descriptor sets out learning for Years 1 to 2 Chinese · Second language learners · Foundation to Year 10 sequence. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration making and copying components and/or characters from playdough, strings, found objects, blocks and chalk
- • Elaboration 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
- • Elaboration 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
- • Elaboration making connections between words sharing a common syllable/morpheme, for example, 小狗, 小猫, 小朋友
- • Elaboration 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
- • Elaboration building new words by combining familiar meanings, for example, 红+苹果
- • Elaboration 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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- • Elaboration 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
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