Years 3 and 4 · Languages · Communicating meaning in Spanish

AC9LS4C03

locate and respond to key information related to familiar content obtained from spoken, written and multimodal texts

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Where AC9LS4C03 comes from and where it goes, for a student working below or above Years 3 and 4.

1. Years 1 and 2AC9LS2C01recognise and respond to modelled classroom-related greetings, instructions and routines, and personal introductions
2. Years 1 and 2AC9LS2C02participate in a range of guided, play-based language activities using formulaic expressions, visual and spoken cues
3. Years 1 and 2AC9LS2C03locate, with support, key information in familiar texts, and respond using gestures, images, words and formulaic phrases
4. Years 1 and 2AC9LS2C04notice that language carries cultural meaning in classroom-related greetings, introductions, instructions and routines
5. Years 1 and 2AC9LS2C05use words, familiar phrases and modelled language to create spoken, written and multimodal texts
6. Years 5 and 6AC9LS6C01initiate and sustain modelled exchanges in familiar contexts related to students’ personal worlds and school environment
7. Years 5 and 6AC9LS6C02participate in activities that involve planning and negotiating with others, using language that expresses information, preferences and ideas
8. Years 5 and 6AC9LS6C03locate 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 6AC9LS6C04apply strategies to interpret and convey meaning in Spanish language in familiar non-verbal, spoken and written cultural contexts
10. Years 5 and 6AC9LS6C05create and present a range of informative and imaginative spoken, written and multimodal texts using a variety of modelled sentence structures to sequence information and ideas, and conventions appropriate to text type