AC9LJ6U01 – Year 5 Languages: Understanding systems of language

This Content Descriptor from Year 5 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.

Elaborations

• • 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
• • recognising and discerning differences in hiragana sounds, for example, たて versus たって
• • 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
• • 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
• • 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
• • understanding the use of furigana as a reading and pronunciation aid
• • 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

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard: