AC9LS2C03
Years 1 to 2
Languages
AC9LS2C03 | Years 1 to 2 Spanish: Mediating meaning in and between languages
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor locate, with support, key information in familiar texts, and respond using gestures, images, words and formulaic phrases
Foundation to Year 10 sequence
Strand
Communicating meaning in Spanish
Substrand
Mediating meaning in and between languages
This content descriptor sets out learning for Years 1 to 2 Spanish · Foundation to Year 10 sequence. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration listening for and identifying key words and phrases in a range of simple texts, using intonation patterns to assist understanding
- • Elaboration participating in shared reading of print and digital texts such as big book stories about familiar events or contexts, for example, Los tres cerditos, El patito feo, Tico tango, using pictures, keywords and contextual clues to predict meaning and draw conclusions
- • Elaboration demonstrating comprehension and early literacy skills by labelling, matching, drawing, miming or onscreen pointing, clicking or dragging, for example, cutting, then gluing pictures of events in a timeline sequence, or dragging onscreen pictures to words
- • Elaboration recognising that gestures and body language are integral to communicating in language for First Nations Australians, and showing examples of how they are also integral to communicating in Spanish and the language(s) they may speak at home
- • Elaboration participating in shared class stories such as La oruga hambrienta and responding to and repeating keywords, for example, Clase, clase ... Sí, sí ¿Qué pasa? ¿Qué come la oruga?, or pretending to be a character and using words, actions and phrases from the text such as ¡Tengo hambre!
- • Elaboration listening to, reading or viewing adapted Spanish versions of familiar stories such as Los tres ositos, Los tres cerditos or El patito feo, and incorporating recurring keywords and expressions when re-enacting elements with puppets, actions or props, for example, ¡El lobo es feroz! El osito está triste.
- • Elaboration responding to questions about people, places and objects that elicit details such as characteristics, size, colour, shape, quantity, for example, ¿De qué color es la casa …? La casa es azul. ¿Dónde está el gato? El gato está en Lima. ¿Cuántos cerdos hay? ¿Tico es grande o pequeño?
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- • Elaboration responding to spoken, print or digital texts, such as stories, rhymes, dialogues and songs through play-acting, illustrating or movement, for example, raising their hand saying ‘sí’ or ‘no’ to a question about the text or circling a favourite character
- • Elaboration categorising information using graphic organisers such as drawings or simple tables, for example, recording likes/dislikes, classifying animals, masculine/feminine words, fruits/vegetables, cognates/borrowed words
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