1st
L (F–10) 3-4
Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 4, students
communicate with each other, the teaching team and others about aspects of their
personal worlds, daily routines, preferences and pastimes at school and in the
Deaf community.
They show aspectual marking on verbs to indicate frequency when communicating
about daily routines, for example pro3 tap-shoulder-repeatedly, and use
modifications to show manner when describing actions and activities.
They initiate and maintain interaction by using discourse markers such as
fillers, checking and clarifying their understanding.
They contribute to class activities and shared learning tasks that involve
transacting, planning and problem-solving, for example, by giving and following
directions, LIBRARY IN DS: turn-right AUSLAN DICTIONARY DS: fat-book SHELF++
THAT. PLEASE BRING-me, expressing preferences, asking for clarification and
using persuasive language PLEASE POPCORN GIVE-me++ BEG?
They use appropriate cultural protocols in different situations, for example, to
gain the attention of a group, such as flashing lights, waving, multiple tapping
or foot stomping in some contexts, waiting for eye contact or pauses in signing
and walking between signers without interrupting them.
They paraphrase information from a variety of Auslan texts and sources used in
school and in the Deaf community.
They recall specific points of information and recount main points in correct
sequence EVERY MONDAY POSS1 CLASS LIST-BUOY-1 READING LIST-BUOY-2 MATHS
LIST-BUOY-3 SWIMMING.
They plan, rehearse and deliver short presentations about topics such as
cultural activities or events in the Deaf community, with the support of
materials such as photos, props, timelines or maps.
They take into account the purpose and intended audience of a text.
They view imaginative texts such as stories, poems and theatre performances,
identifying how signers represent their own or others’ actions through
constructed action (CA).
They create simple imaginative texts of their own, using CA to represent their
own or other people’s actions, thoughts, feelings or attitudes.
They create signed class translations, for example, of repeated lines in
familiar children’s stories, and simple bilingual texts for the classroom or
school community, such as posters or bilingual picture dictionaries.
Students identify places that are important to the Deaf community and describe
how such places evoke a sense of belonging and pride.
They recognise that the single most unifying factor of the community is the use
of Auslan; and they describe ways in which Auslan and associated communicative
and cultural behaviours are similar to or different from wider community spoken
languages and forms of cultural expression.
Students demonstrate how the formational elements of handshapes and their
orientation, movement, location and non-manual features can be arranged in
signs, identifying, for example, whether a sign is body anchored or not, or is
single, double or two-handed.
They know the functions of different pointing signs, such as pronouns,
determiners or locatives; and can identify examples of signers using a location
to refer to a previous referent.
They use metalanguage to talk about Auslan, using terms such as constructed
action, depicting signs, indicating verbs, non-manual features, pointing signs
and clauses.
They recognise variation in how Auslan is used, for example by recognising
regional dialects and differences in signing space.
They identify different ways that Deaf community members communicate with each
other and with members of the wider hearing community, for example, face to
face, via technology, social media and interpreters.
They know that culture is closely related to language and to identity and that
it involves visible and invisible elements.