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Years 5 and 6 · Languages · Communicating meaning in Auslan

AC9L2AU6C01

initiate and sustain modelled exchanges in familiar contexts related to students’ personal worlds and school environment

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Taught alongside it

The rest of Communicating meaning in Auslan in Years 5 and 6.

AC9L1AU6C01

initiate and sustain exchanges related to students’ experiences and opinions of their personal worlds and school environment

AC9L1AU6C02

participate in activities that involve planning and negotiating with others, using familiar and modelled idiomatic language to agree, suggest and resolve

AC9L1AU6C03

locate and process information and ideas in a range of signed, visual and multimodal texts, and respond in different ways to suit purpose

AC9L1AU6C04

apply strategies to interpret and convey meaning in signed and visual cultural contexts

AC9L1AU6C05

create and present a range of informative and imaginative signed, visual and multimodal texts using a variety of modelled language structures and features to sequence information and ideas, appropriate to text type

AC9L2AU6C02

participate in activities that involve planning and negotiating with others, using language that expresses information, preferences and ideas

AC9L2AU6C03

locate and process information and ideas in a range of signed, visual and multimodal texts, and respond in different ways to suit purpose

AC9L2AU6C04

apply strategies to interpret and convey meaning in familiar signed and visual cultural contexts

AC9L2AU6C05

create and present a range of informative and imaginative signed, visual and multimodal texts using a variety of modelled structures to sequence information and ideas, and using fingerspelling (FS), lexical signs, depicting signs (DSs), non-manual features (NMFs) and signing space, appropriate to text type

The same idea, year by year

Where AC9L2AU6C01 comes from and where it goes, for a student working below or above Years 5 and 6.

  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
  11. Years 7 and 8AC9L1AU8C01initiate and sustain exchanges in familiar and unfamiliar contexts related to students’ experiences, feelings and opinions, adjusting their language in response to others
  12. Years 7 and 8AC9L1AU8C02collaborate in activities that involve the language of transacting, negotiating and justifying, to plan projects and events
  13. Years 7 and 8AC9L1AU8C03interpret and analyse information, ideas and opinions in a range of signed, visual and multimodal texts, and respond appropriately to cultural context, purpose and audience
  14. Years 7 and 8AC9L1AU8C04interpret and adjust signed, visual and written language to convey meaning in a range of familiar and unfamiliar cultural contexts
  15. Years 7 and 8AC9L1AU8C05create and present signed, visual and multimodal, informative and imaginative texts, manipulating language to suit context, purpose and audience
  16. Years 7 and 8AC9L1AU8EC01interact with others using modelled language to exchange information in familiar contexts about self and personal worlds
  17. Years 7 and 8AC9L1AU8EC02engage in modelled signed and visual exchanges with peers to organise activities related to daily life and school environment
  18. Years 7 and 8AC9L1AU8EC03locate and process information and ideas in familiar signed, visual and multimodal texts, responding in ways appropriate to cultural context, purpose and audience
  19. Years 7 and 8AC9L1AU8EC04develop and begin to apply strategies to interpret, translate and convey meaning in Auslan in familiar contexts
  20. Years 7 and 8AC9L1AU8EC05create signed, visual and multimodal informative and imaginative texts using modelled fingerspelling (FS), lexical signs, depicting signs (DSs), non-manual features (NMFs) and signing space
  21. Years 7 and 8AC9L2AU8C01initiate and sustain exchanges in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts related to students’ experiences, feelings and views, adjusting their language in response to others
  22. Years 7 and 8AC9L2AU8C02collaborate in activities that involve the language of transaction, negotiation and problem-solving to plan projects and events
  23. Years 7 and 8AC9L2AU8C03interpret information, ideas and opinions in a range of signed, visual and multimodal texts, and respond appropriately to cultural context, purpose and audience
  24. Years 7 and 8AC9L2AU8C04interpret and adjust signed, spoken and written language to convey meaning in a range of familiar and some unfamiliar cultural contexts
  25. Years 7 and 8AC9L2AU8C05create and present signed, visual and multimodal, informative and imaginative texts, selecting fingerspelling (FS), lexical signs, depicting signs (DSs), non-manual features (NMFs) and signing space, appropriate to text type
  26. Years 7 and 8AC9L2AU8EC01interact with others using modelled language to exchange information in familiar contexts about self and personal worlds
  27. Years 7 and 8AC9L2AU8EC02engage in modelled signed and visual exchanges with peers to organise activities related to daily life and school environment
  28. Years 7 and 8AC9L2AU8EC03locate and process information and ideas in familiar signed, visual and multimodal texts, responding in ways appropriate to cultural context, purpose and audience
  29. Years 7 and 8AC9L2AU8EC04develop and begin to apply strategies to interpret, translate and convey meaning in Auslan in familiar contexts
  30. Years 7 and 8AC9L2AU8EC05create signed, visual and multimodal informative and imaginative texts using modelled fingerspelling (FS), lexical signs, depicting signs (DSs), non-manual features (NMFs) and signing space

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