AC9LJ2C05 Year 1 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.

with support, use words, familiar phrases and modelled language to create spoken, written and multimodal texts, copying some kana and single high-frequency kanji appropriate to context

Elaborations

• 1 linking movement to meaning by creating a dance or actions matching spoken language or songs
• 2 using simple language structures and supporting drawings or actions to describe and respond to imaginary characters or experiences, for example, おばけ、おに、かっぱ、たぬき、ようかいです。
• 3 creating bilingual resources for the classroom, for example, collectively creating a simple class story and recording students’ voices reading the story to produce an audio file
• 4 matching bilingual captions/labels to images of First Nations Country/Place locations in their local area or elsewhere in Australia
• 5 creating and illustrating class ‘Big Books’ about familiar topics using simple, modelled structures, for example, writing and drawing favourite animals, かえるです。みどりです, and practising reading aloud
• 6 creating their own short print or digital story modelled on shared reading, for example, a だるまさんが story, with images and labels in hiragana
• 7 using simple sentence structures, familiar vocabulary and concrete materials, create an informative ‘about me’ poster or profile with images or photos to be displayed in the classroom
• 8 using some simple expressions, formulaic language and techniques to enhance texts, for example, speech bubbles, basic onomatopoeia and exclamation marks
• 9 beginning to copy/write hiragana and kanji, such as 人、木、山、川、月、日、三, and short hiragana words to create simple texts such as comic strips, labels, captions and posters
• 10 using craft items (string, rice, playdough, etc.) or digital tools (interactive whiteboard, etc.) to make, trace or copy hiragana words and kanji characters

Related Achievement Standards