AC9LRF2U03 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.

notice that [Language] has features that may be similar to or different from English

Elaborations

• 1 recognising that written texts are made up of words, groups of words, and illustrations or images that together make meaning
• 2 developing language awareness and using metalanguage to describe word types, for example, choosing favourite adjectives
• 3 understanding that texts have a purpose, for example, Creation, Dreamtime, Dreaming, or traditional stories, paintings, songs, dances and Country/Place experiences if appropriate
• 4 identifying some features of narratives in [Language], for example, recurring themes of journeys across Country/Place involving landforms, people, animals and plants
• 5 recognising that communication may occur through hand signs and gestures in [Language], English and/or other known language(s), and these may be the same or different, for example, nodding or using the hand signal for stop or using eyes to tell someone to go or to sit
• 6 noticing word order differences between [Language], English and/or other known language(s)
• 7 understanding that texts may take many forms; that they may be very short texts such as a sign, or quite long texts such as a story, song or multimodal presentation
• 8 recognising words in [Language] that are borrowed from English
• 9 recognising that some words in [Language] have come from other Aboriginal languages and Torres Strait Islander languages
• 10 noticing and describing Aboriginal language and Torres Strait Islander language words and phrases that are in widespread use in Australia

Related Achievement Standards