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K–10Auslan K–10 Syllabus (2023)

Implementation from 2026
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Content

Stage 1

Understanding texts in Auslan

Content is provided for:

  • Additional: students learning Auslan as an additional language
  • Prior learning/experience: students learning Auslan with knowledge and/or experience from in or outside the classroom
  • First: students learning Auslan as their Loading .
Accessing texts
Additional
  • Follow high-frequency Loading  and instructions

  • Identify key information in Loading 

  • View imaginative simple texts and recognise that their own experience can shape their ideas and opinions of texts

First
  • Follow extended instructions with multiple steps

  • Identify and Loading  to information in simple texts

  • View imaginative texts and understand that their own experience can shape their ideas and opinions of texts

Responding to texts
Additional
  • Identify and sequence information to respond to key details in simple texts

  • Match key information in Auslan and English to respond to texts

  • Translate simple words and phrases used in everyday contexts between Auslan and English

First
  • Retell steps of a procedure using Loading  and sequencing Loading 

  • Identify and share information from texts about the description of people, animals and objects using lexical signs and Loading 

  • Use signs, English words or Loading  with Loading  to respond to a range of imaginative experiences

  • Translate signs, words and phrases between Auslan and English using visual cues, signs and English words

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