AC9LRF4U05 Year 3 Languages

AC9LRF4U05 – Year 3 Languages: Understanding the interrelationship of language, culture and identity

Strand

Understanding language and culture

Substrand

Understanding the interrelationship of language, culture and identity

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.

Content Descriptor

identify connections between [Language] language, culture, Country/Place and identity

Elaborations

• understanding how a Welcome to Country or an Acknowledgment of Country relate to self and Country/Place, for example, learning through watching tribal Elders perform a Welcome to Country, if appropriate
• demonstrating respectful behaviours in the presence of visiting Elders and/or community members, and during visits to important sites
• learning from Elders and/or community members, if appropriate, about roles and responsibilities in caring for Country/Place and how this connects with the importance of preserving cultural heritage
• knowing that certain songs, dances, items, tools and places are only for people with cultural connections with them, for example, some sacred places are for men only or women only
• comparing cultural practices and language related to food, for example, using [Language] associated with gardening, or when feasting on the bogong moth, or when celebrating a sand-bar opening by eating freshwater fish and prawns
• identifying and discussing the meanings of personal and family names and how they relate to identity and reflects ancestral connections with Country/Place, land, waters, sky and all living things, for example, making links between family names and Land when a name has originated from Country/Place
• talking about ways a community expresses elements of identity, for example, using [Language] in the local community for media greetings on the radio, on buildings, in parks and streets, at sporting events, on public transport decorated with [Language] art, or on placards at places connected with First Nations stories

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 3 ASLANFALLRY34

Year 3 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 4, students use [Language] language to initiate structured interactions to share information related to Country/Place, the classroom and their personal worlds. They use modelled language to participate in spoken and written activities that involve planning. They locate and respond to key items of information in texts, using strategies to help interpret and convey meaning in familiar contexts. They use modelled language and basic syntax to create texts. Students reproduce sound combinations and rhythms of spoken [Language]. They demonstrate understanding that [Language] has non-verbal, spoken and written language conventions and rules to create and make meaning. They recognise that some terms have cultural meanings. They identify patterns in [Language] and make comparisons between [Language] and English. They understand that the [Language] language is passed down from generation to generation by its Custodians and connected with culture and identity. They identify how this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.