1st
L (Yr 7 Entry) 9-10
Communicating
Socialising
Describe activities and experiences and share and respond to ideas and feelings
about people they know, their daily lives, social worlds and school community
[Key concepts: idea, feeling, description, experience; Key processes:
recounting, describing, interacting, comparing] -
Elaboration 1
Participate in shared learning activities that involve planning, transacting and
problem-solving, using simple signed statements, questions and directions
[Key concepts: planning, role, responsibility, support, information exchange;
Key processes: negotiating, encouraging, describing, expressing preference] -
Elaboration 2
Communicate clearly in different classroom interactions and contexts,
demonstrating appropriate protocols when communicating with each other, teachers
and deaf people
[Key concepts: instruction, interaction, protocol; Key processes: responding,
negotiating, indicating, initiating, interrupting] -
Elaboration 3
Informing
Identify, paraphrase or compare information obtained from a variety of signed
texts or from their own data collection and present the information in different
forms
[Key concepts: information, likes/dislikes, interests, preferences; Key
processes: retelling, recording, organising, identifying, surveying,
categorising] -
Elaboration 4
Convey factual information and opinions in signed texts
[Key concepts: routine, event, hobby, procedure; Key processes: describing,
reporting, explaining, presenting, instructing] -
Elaboration 5
Creating
Engage with different types of creative texts, identifying and discussing
characters, events and personal responses through the use of familiar signs,
actions and artwork
[Key concepts: performance, character, personal response, creativity; Key
processes: viewing, responding, participating, comparing] -
Elaboration 6
Create or adapt imaginative texts and live or filmed expressive performances
that involve imagined experiences and feature different characters, amusing
experiences or special effects
[Key concepts: appearance, character, audience, animation, emotion, manner; Key
processes: depicting, creating, presenting, re-enacting, reinterpreting,
choreographing, performing] -
Elaboration 7
Translating
Translate and interpret different types of familiar short texts, demonstrating
awareness of individual interpretations of meaning
[Key concepts: equivalence, translation, meaning, interpretation, ethics,
culture; Key processes: translating, interpreting, comparing, researching,
shadowing, explaining] -
Elaboration 8
Create bilingual texts such as notices, displays or newsletters for use in the
wider school community
[Key concepts: translation, meaning, bilingualism, information; Key processes:
translating, composing, comparing, creating, contributing] -
Elaboration 9
Identity
Identify and analyse ways in which deaf people behave and relate within society
as a distinct social group as ‘people of the eye’, demonstrate responsibility
for connections between the Deaf community and the wider ‘hearing’ society, and
for culturally rich and appropriate places and spaces
[Key concepts: identity, relationship, Deafhood, advocacy, society, place, Deaf
space, Deaf gain, responsibility, guidance; Key processes: identifying,
discussing, comparing] -
Elaboration 10
Reflecting
Reflect on the experience of learning and using Auslan in and out of school, and
ways in which their understanding of intercultural communication has developed
[Key concepts: intercultural communication, perspective, insight,
self-reflection, making meaning, discrimination; Key processes: comparing,
analysing, explaining, reflecting] -
Elaboration 11