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AC9LH2C03: Year 1 Languages Content Descriptor – Mediating meaning in and between languages
AC9LH2C03 Year 1 Languages

AC9LH2C03 – Year 1 Languages: Mediating meaning in and between languages

Strand
Communicating meaning in Hindi
Substrand
Mediating meaning in and between languages

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

locate, with support, key information in familiar texts, and respond using gestures, images, words and formulaic phrases

Elaborations

  • locating simple keywords or phrases in familiar contexts, such as labels, captions and titles in stories, for example, यह लाल रंग है, चतुर बंद बंदर बंद
  • demonstrating comprehension and early literacy skills by labelling, matching, drawing, miming or on-screen pointing, clicking or dragging information, for example, matching pictures to words or sentences
  • listening for specific points of information in stories, rhymes or songs, such as तितली रानी, तितली रानी; एक कौआ प्यासा था; चूहा और शेर, using intonation, gestures and facial expressions to aid comprehension
  • recognising that gestures and body language are integral to communicating in language for First Nations Australians, and showing examples of how they are also integral to communicating in Hindi and the language(s) they may speak at home
  • listening to, reading or viewing a text and sequencing the events and ideas using storyboards, drawing pictures and adding captions, or cutting and gluing pictures/words in chronological order
  • re-enacting parts of a story or pretending to be a character, for example, मुझे भूख लगी है। मै पाँच अंगूर खा लेता हूँ
  • participating in group reading of Hindi versions of familiar English-language stories such as भूखी इल्ली, टिडलिक-एक मेंढक, and comparing words and expressions in each language at key stages of the story
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  • making simple evaluative statements about stories, rhymes or songs such as मुझे कछुआ पसंद है क्योंकि वह हिम्मत नहीं हारता; मुझे खरगोश पसंद है क्योंकि वह तेज़ दौड़ता है।
  • using observation skills and target language to find and name elements such as hidden items in a puzzle, or words and/or letters in an image or spot-the-difference picture, and selecting from a stimulus list of simple Hindi words
  • sorting and categorising information using simple graphic organisers such as graphs, mind maps or tables, for example, recording others’ likes and dislikes, masculine and feminine words, pets at home

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 1 ASLANHINF10Y12
Year 1 Languages Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 2, students use Hindi 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 in Devanāgarī script to create text. They copy Devanāgarī script to make words. Students imitate the sounds and rhythms of spoken Hindi. They demonstrate understanding that Hindi has rules for non-verbal communication, pronunciation and writing. They give examples of similarities and differences between some features of Hindi and English. They understand that language is connected with culture, and notice how this is reflected in their own language(s) and culture(s).