AC9LRFF03 – Foundation Languages: null

This Content Descriptor from Foundation 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

• 1 noticing different languages and cultures of class members and identifying different ways of expressing common terms such as agreement, greetings, welcome, appreciation or equivalent as appropriate in [Language]
• 2 sharing with the class words and phrases they know in other languages and cultures, for example, creating anchor charts for display or placing the words/phrases on a classroom word wall
• 3 engaging with traditions, customs, traditional dress and food of [Language]-speaking communities if appropriate, for example, gardening for sustainability based on traditional foods, or dancing for parents in traditional dress and with permission from Elders and/or community members
• 4 using the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) map of the languages of Australia to notice the language(s) of First Nations Australians in their local area and/or across Australia
• 5 noticing that local names of streets, places and landmarks may have their origins in language(s) of First Nations Australians

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