1st
L (Yr 7 Entry) 7-8
Communicating
Creating
- Elaboration 6
- viewing narratives in Auslan, for example, from the Auslan Storybooks
website, demonstrating understanding through drawing, gesture and modelled signs
- responding to short expressive texts that involve the movement of people,
animals or vehicles, demonstrating understanding through drawings or familiar
signs
- responding to key elements of short signed stories, for example by mimicking
facial expressions or repeated signs
- participating in interactions in Auslan that involve imaginative responses to
stimuli such as cartoons using gestures, handshapes, facial expressions and
simple signs to suggest what happens next in the story
- engaging with different forms of Deaf art, such as handshape creations, and
responding by creating their own piece of art on a similar theme
- shadowing NMFs in short Auslan poems or narratives
- retelling favourite events of an Auslan story using modelled signing
- engaging in imaginative interactions that involve the creation of mood or
momentum through repeated use of signs, handshapes and facial expressions to
modify manner or intensify adjectives
- responding to performances of Deaf poetry that evoke emotions such as sadness,
fear or excitement, for example by indicating enjoyment or different personal
feelings