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K–10Modern Languages K–10 Syllabus

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Implementation from 2024
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Content

Stage 1

Understanding texts
Understanding and responding to target language texts
  • Follow instructions

  • Listen to, read and/or view simple texts such as stories, songs, charts, rhymes or lists on familiar themes

  • Use auditory cues, gestures, visuals and other forms of nonverbal communication to support comprehension

  • Associate vocabulary on familiar themes with known actions, people, places, objects and ideas

  • Recognise information in simple texts and respond to simple questions in the target language and/or English to show understanding of texts

  • Demonstrate understanding when responding to texts using actions, drawing, singing or simple exchanges in the target language and/or English

Applying knowledge of language systems to understand and respond to target language texts
  • Recognise and use sounds of modelled vocabulary and phrases to understand and respond to texts

  • Recognise sound–symbol correspondences in modelled words and phrases to understand and respond to texts

  • Recognise and use knowledge of modelled vocabulary, high-frequency words and formulaic phrases on familiar themes to understand and respond to texts

  • Use simple grammar patterns to understand and respond to texts

  • Recognise that the target language has features that may be similar to or different from English

  • Recognise and reproduce symbols or modelled vocabulary and phrases of the writing system to understand and respond to texts

Developing intercultural understanding through target language texts
  • Notice that language is used in ways that reflect cultural practices and reflect on their own language and cultural practices

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