AC9LJ4U02 Year 3 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 3 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.

recognise Japanese language conventions, some kana and kanji rules, simple grammatical structures and basic syntax in familiar texts and contexts

Elaborations

• 1 recognising and using the rules of simple Japanese word order (subject+object+verb/copula) with support
• 2 developing understanding of present tense ます form with particles を and に, for example, ぶどうをたべます、がっこうにいきます, and beginning to use in texts
• 3 describing people, animals, places and things using adjectives or adjective-noun phrases, for example, おいしいです、おいしいもも
• 4 understanding that there is a stroke order and that there are rules for kana and kanji, and practising numbering strokes in order when writing characters
• 5 recognising the function of, and using some particles in sentences, for example, は after the subject, の to indicate ownership, か for questions and が in formulaic expressions such as がすきです
• 6 recognising some Japanese writing conventions and different ways of presenting texts, for example, observing layout, direction, the use of squared paper and punctuation, たてがき, よこがき
• 7 recognising and using basic counters in Japanese for different purposes such as expressing quantity and time, for example, ～人、～才、～月、～じ、はん and counting from 1–100
• 8 seeking information using question words within modelled sentence structures, なに、なん、いつ、どこ and だれ and the sentence-ending particle か, for example, なにがすきですか。なん才ですか。なん人ですか。いつですか。
• 9 noticing the systematic and logical nature of Japanese grammar, writing and the kana charts, and using this knowledge to support learning
• 10 developing metalanguage for communicating about language through the use of correct terminology for parts of speech (noun, verb and adjective)

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