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K–10Auslan K–10 Syllabus (2023)

Implementation from 2026
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Content

Stage 5

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 how a range of creative and imaginative texts use expressive forms and signed choices to create meaning

  • Summarise and examine texts

  • Analyse information and/or perspectives and how they are represented in increasingly complex texts

Prior
  • Explain and infer a range of cultural values, themes and ideas in a range of creative and imaginative texts

  • Analyse and evaluate how information and perspectives are represented in a range of increasingly complex texts

First
  • Analyse the choice of perspective, character and observer space in a text

  • Analyse a Loading  to identify when, how and why the signer shifts into a different role in Loading 

  • Analyse and evaluate information and perspectives and how they are represented in a range of familiar and unfamiliar texts

  • Critically evaluate different types of creative and performative texts to explain how specific techniques and Loading  are used for different effects

Responding to texts
Additional
  • Loading  to a range of texts and compare their responses with those of their peers

  • Translate familiar texts and consider the role of Loading  when translating

Prior
  • Respond to a range of texts on social and cultural issues

  • Compare interpretations of different types of texts that invite consideration of values, themes and ideas

  • Translate familiar and unfamiliar texts composed for different purposes and audiences between Auslan and English

First
  • Respond critically to texts on a range of social and cultural issues including those of interest and significance to the Loading 

  • Respond to different types of texts that invite consideration of values, themes and ideas and involve different modes of expression

  • Translate complex texts composed for different purposes and audiences between Auslan and English

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