1st
L (F–10) 3-4
Understanding
Systems of Language
- Elaboration 1
- noticing the orientation of handshapes in signs
- identifying and demonstrating signs with a change in handshape, for example
FIND or BEST
- identifying and demonstrating signs with a change in orientation, for example
CAN-NOT or HOW
- distinguishing between single, double and two-handed signs, and identifying
which hand is dominant and which is non-dominant in two-handed signs
- thinking of body-anchored signs, such as HEAD or WHY, and signs that are not
body anchored, such as HAVE or STOP and recognising that non-body anchored signs
can be located in space around the signer
- understanding that NMFs can also be an element of a sign and can show
emotional states such as a happy expression or grammatical information, for
example, a frown to mark a negative
- comparing iconic signs that provide visual images of referents, such as DRINK,
ELEPHANT, with English words that map to the sound images of the referents, such
as animal noises, or words for sounds such as bang
- describing how the movement changes between groups of related numbers, for
example, 5, 15, 50, 5th
- learning to film themselves and analyse the video or to read simple glosses
produced by the teacher, and understanding that the English word used is often
not an exact match for the meaning of the sign