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Years 1 and 2 · Languages · Communicating meaning in Auslan

AC9L1AU2C05

with support, create signed, visual and multimodal texts, using familiar fingerspelling (FS), lexical signs, depicting signs (DSs), non-manual features (NMFs) and signing space

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Taught alongside it

The rest of Communicating meaning in Auslan in Years 1 and 2.

AC9L1AU2C01

exchange greetings and personal introductions and respond to classroom-related instructions and routines

AC9L1AU2C02

participate in a range of play-based activities, using modelled expressions and visual cues

AC9L1AU2C03

locate, with support, key information in familiar texts, and respond using gestures, images, words and modelled phrases

AC9L1AU2C04

recognise language that carries cultural meaning in everyday social interactions

AC9L2AU2C01

recognise and respond to modelled classroom-related greetings, instructions and routines, and personal introductions

AC9L2AU2C02

participate in a range of guided, play-based language activities, using formulaic expressions and visual cues

AC9L2AU2C03

locate, with support, key information in familiar texts, and respond using gestures, images, words and formulaic phrases

AC9L2AU2C04

notice that language carries cultural meaning in classroom-related greetings, introductions, instructions and routines

AC9L2AU2C05

with support, create signed, visual and multimodal texts, using modelled fingerspelling (FS), lexical signs, depicting signs (DSs), non-manual features (NMFs) and signing space

The same idea, year by year

Where AC9L1AU2C05 comes from and where it goes, for a student working below or above Years 1 and 2.

  1. Years 3 and 4AC9L1AU4C01initiate exchanges and respond to questions about self, others and the classroom environment, using modelled and familiar expressions
  2. Years 3 and 4AC9L1AU4C02participate in activities that involve planning and transacting with others, using a range of phrases and structures in familiar contexts
  3. Years 3 and 4AC9L1AU4C03locate and respond to key information related to familiar content obtained from signed, visual and multimodal texts
  4. Years 3 and 4AC9L1AU4C04develop strategies to comprehend and adjust Auslan to convey cultural meaning
  5. Years 3 and 4AC9L1AU4C05create and present informative and imaginative signed, visual and multimodal texts, using fingerspelling (FS), lexical signs, depicting signs (DSs), non-manual features (NMFs), signing space, formulaic expressions and modelled textual conventions
  6. Years 3 and 4AC9L2AU4C01initiate exchanges and respond to modelled questions about self, others and the classroom environment, using formulaic expressions
  7. Years 3 and 4AC9L2AU4C02participate in activities that involve planning with others, using a range of familiar phrases and modelled structures
  8. Years 3 and 4AC9L2AU4C03locate and respond to key information related to familiar content obtained from signed, visual and multimodal texts
  9. Years 3 and 4AC9L2AU4C04develop strategies to comprehend and adjust Auslan in familiar contexts to convey cultural meaning
  10. Years 3 and 4AC9L2AU4C05create and present informative and imaginative signed, visual and multimodal texts, using familiar fingerspelling (FS), lexical signs, depicting signs (DSs), non-manual features (NMFs) and signing space, formulaic expressions and modelled textual conventions

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