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Years 1 and 2 · Languages · Communicating meaning in Japanese

AC9LJ2C03

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

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Taught alongside it

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

AC9LJ2C01

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

AC9LJ2C02

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

AC9LJ2C04

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

AC9LJ2C05

with support, use words, familiar phrases and modelled language to create spoken, written and multimodal texts, copying some kana and single high-frequency kanji appropriate to context

The same idea, year by year

Where AC9LJ2C03 comes from and where it goes, for a student working below or above Years 1 and 2.

  1. Years 3 and 4AC9LJ4C01initiate exchanges and respond to modelled questions about self, others, and classroom environment, using formulaic expressions
  2. Years 3 and 4AC9LJ4C02participate in activities that involve planning with others, using a range of familiar phrases and modelled structures
  3. Years 3 and 4AC9LJ4C03locate and respond to key information related to familiar content obtained from spoken, written and multimodal texts
  4. Years 3 and 4AC9LJ4C04develop strategies to comprehend and adjust Japanese language in familiar contexts to convey cultural meaning
  5. Years 3 and 4AC9LJ4C05create and present informative and imaginative spoken, written and multimodal texts using formulaic expressions, simple sentences, modelled textual conventions, hiragana with the chart as support, and familiar kanji appropriate to context

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