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K–10Modern Languages K–10 Syllabus

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Life Skills

Life Skills for Stage 4/5

Through collaborative curriculum planning, it may be decided that Life Skills outcomes and content are the most appropriate option for some students with intellectual disability.

Understanding texts
Understanding and responding to spoken, written and multimodal target language texts

  • Listen to, read and/or view texts on familiar topics

  • Recognise key vocabulary and phrases in texts

  • Identify key ideas in texts

  • Demonstrate understanding when engaging in shared listening, reading and/or viewing of texts

  • Respond in English or the target language to known words or phrases

  • Share ideas or opinions in the target language or in English in response to texts

  • Apply strategies to organise and understand information in texts

Applying knowledge of language systems to understand and respond to target language texts

  • Use text structures and features to gain meaning from a text

  • Use elements of the sound system to identify key information in a text

  • Use sound–symbol correspondences in high-frequency and modelled vocabulary to understand simple phrases

  • Use familiar vocabulary to recognise people, places and events in a text

  • Use familiar grammar patterns to respond to texts

  • Recognise script, characters or symbols in the target language

Developing intercultural understanding through target language texts

  • Recognise cultural practices and ideas in texts

  • Identify cultural practices and ideas in texts that are similar or different from their own

  • Explore the relationship between language, culture and identity

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