Years 3 and 4 · Languages · Communicating meaning in Arabic

AC9LA4C01

initiate exchanges and respond to modelled questions about self, others, and classroom environment, using formulaic expressions

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Where AC9LA4C01 comes from and where it goes, for a student working below or above Years 3 and 4.

1. Years 1 and 2AC9LA2C01recognise and respond to modelled classroom-related greetings, instructions and routines, and personal introductions
2. Years 1 and 2AC9LA2C02participate in a range of guided, play-based language activities using formulaic expressions, visual and spoken cues
3. Years 1 and 2AC9LA2C03locate, with support, key information in familiar texts, and respond using gestures, images, words and formulaic phrases
4. Years 1 and 2AC9LA2C04notice that language carries cultural meaning in classroom-related greetings, introductions, instructions and routines
5. Years 1 and 2AC9LA2C05with support, connect letters and use vowel marks to form words, and use familiar phrases and modelled language to create spoken, written and multimodal texts
6. Years 5 and 6AC9LA6C01initiate and sustain modelled exchanges in familiar contexts related to students’ personal worlds and school environment
7. Years 5 and 6AC9LA6C02participate in activities that involve planning and negotiating with others, using language that expresses information, preferences and ideas
8. Years 5 and 6AC9LA6C03locate and process information and ideas in a range of spoken, written and multimodal texts, and respond in different ways to suit purpose
9. Years 5 and 6AC9LA6C04apply strategies to interpret and convey meaning in Arabic language in familiar non-verbal, spoken and written cultural contexts
10. Years 5 and 6AC9LA6C05create and present a range of informative and imaginative spoken, written and multimodal texts using conventions of letter position, in a variety of modelled sentence structures to sequence information and ideas appropriate to text