AC9LJ2U02 Years 1 to 2 Languages

Content descriptor recognise that hiragana, katakana and kanji are used to construct meaning in Japanese texts

Elaborations

• • Elaboration recognising that a Japanese sentence is formed by using scripts and that simple statements end in です and questions end in か
• • Elaboration understanding that Japanese uses 3 different scripts for varied purposes, and that they look different depending on word origins and context
• • Elaboration recognising that adjectives are used to describe people, places and things, for example, matching simple adjective words to a picture, おおきい、ちいさい
• • Elaboration applying basic stroke order, with support, when copying, tracing and writing some hiragana and simple kanji, for example, numbering strokes or using different coloured pencils
• • Elaboration using basic particles as part of formulaic language and being exposed to particles written in hiragana
• • Elaboration noticing that Japanese texts can be presented in different ways, for example, finding texts that are right to left then top to bottom, or top to bottom then left to right
• • Elaboration counting in Japanese from 1–20 and using numbers with counters to express age and number of family members さい、人

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• • Elaboration using これ and か as formulaic language to ask and respond to questions such as これはなんですか。これはねこです。
• • Elaboration recognising some familiar kana words and kanji, for example, numbers and 象形文字 (しょうけいもじ) pictographs such as 山、川、口、目、上, and using visual and oral clues to predict the meaning