AC9LJ6U01 Years 5 to 6 Languages

Content descriptor apply knowledge of combinations of hiragana sounds, pronunciation and intonation patterns to develop fluency and rhythm to known words and phrases

Elaborations

• • Elaboration pronouncing all the sounds in the kana chart, including voiced and unvoiced sounds, combined and long vowel sounds, and double consonants, for example, きって and りょうり
• • Elaboration recognising and discerning differences in hiragana sounds, for example, たて versus たって
• • Elaboration using the kana chart as reference, pronouncing some common katakana words, and using them in texts, for example, アイスクリーム、インターネット
• • Elaboration noticing the relationship between stress, pacing and meaning, and using appropriate intonation patterns for familiar language to exclaim, make a statement or ask a question, for example, demonstrating fluency in a paired speaking activity or reading a familiar story aloud, or drawing lines going up or down to indicate intonation in questions and statements
• • Elaboration building knowledge of kanji, including their origin from China, common radicals and compounds, and understanding that some of the same kanji can be pronounced differently when combined with other kanji, for example, 人、にん and じん
• • Elaboration understanding the use of furigana as a reading and pronunciation aid
• • Elaboration recognising that the hiragana used for some particles does not match its pronunciation, for example, ‘wa’ for は, ‘e’ for へ, ‘o/wo’ for を

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• • Elaboration experimenting with using a keyboard with romaji input settings to type words or short sentences, and choosing matching hiragana or kanji appropriate to context