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K–10Auslan K–10 Syllabus (2023)

Implementation from 2026
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Content

Stage 4

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
  • Identify gist and key information in a range of texts about familiar topics and use the information in new ways

  • Examine and explain how texts on familiar topics represent opinions and/or ideas

Prior
  • Identify and analyse how information is represented in a range of texts in school and community contexts

  • Examine and evaluate how a range of texts represent opinions and/or ideas

  • Examine information from texts that involve the expression of feelings or experiences

First
  • Analyse texts in wider community contexts

  • Analyse the complexities of reading Loading  from different angles and different styles of signers

  • Examine and analyse how different stylistic techniques convey ideas and emotions in texts

Responding to texts
Additional
  • Indicate understanding, interest or lack of interest in a text using lexical Loading , Loading  and affective Loading 

  • Identify, discuss and explain how ideas, characters and events are represented in a range of short texts

  • Translate short texts between Auslan and English

Prior
  • Explain their interpretation of creative and imaginative texts

  • Translate familiar texts between Auslan and English using a range of strategies and considering the role of Loading 

First
  • Loading  to texts using a wide range of processing strategies, broad Loading  knowledge and knowledge of text conventions and patterns

  • Analyse how information, opinions and/or ideas are represented in a variety of texts from formal and informal contexts

  • Respond to a range of texts that involve the creative expression of emotions or ideas and the imaginative representation of people, events and cultural experiences

  • Translate unfamiliar texts between Auslan and English using a range of strategies and considering the role of culture

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