Years 3 and 4 · Languages · Communicating meaning in Japanese

AC9LJ4C05

create 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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1. Years 1 and 2AC9LJ2C01recognise and respond to modelled classroom-related greetings, instructions and routines; and personal introductions
2. Years 1 and 2AC9LJ2C02participate in a range of guided, play-based language activities using formulaic expressions, visual and spoken cues
3. Years 1 and 2AC9LJ2C03locate, with support, key information in familiar texts, and respond using gestures, images, words and formulaic phrases
4. Years 1 and 2AC9LJ2C04notice that language carries cultural meaning in classroom-related greetings, introductions, instructions and routines
5. Years 1 and 2AC9LJ2C05with 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
6. Years 5 and 6AC9LJ6C01initiate and sustain modelled exchanges in familiar contexts related to students’ personal world and school environment
7. Years 5 and 6AC9LJ6C02participate in activities that involve planning and negotiating with others, using language that expresses information, preferences and ideas
8. Years 5 and 6AC9LJ6C03locate 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 6AC9LJ6C04apply strategies to interpret and convey meaning in Japanese language in familiar spoken, written and non-verbal cultural contexts
10. Years 5 and 6AC9LJ6C05create and present informative and imaginative spoken, written and multimodal texts using a variety of modelled sentence structures to sequence information and ideas, textual conventions, and hiragana and some familiar katakana and kanji appropriate to context