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K–10Modern Languages K–10 Syllabus

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Implementation from 2024
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Content

Stage 2

Understanding texts
Understanding and responding to target language texts
  • Listen to, read and view information in texts on familiar themes

  • Use strategies to locate, organise, classify and sort information in texts for a range of purposes

  • Respond to questions about specific information in texts on familiar themes, using modelled target language sentence structures and/or English

  • Respond to texts through actions, visuals, written or spoken responses in the target language and/or English to demonstrate understanding and convey meaning

Applying knowledge of language systems to understand and respond to target language texts
  • Identify and use the sounds of familiar vocabulary and phrases in the target language to understand and respond to texts

  • Recognise and use sound–symbol correspondences to understand and respond to texts

  • Identify and use knowledge of vocabulary and formulaic phrases from familiar themes to understand and respond to texts

  • Identify and use elements of grammar in familiar language patterns

  • Recognise modelled target language features and compare them with English features

  • Recognise and use modelled structures and features of the target language writing system to understand and respond to texts

Developing intercultural understanding through target language texts
  • Respond to texts and identify connections between language and cultural practices and reflect on their own language(s) and culture(s)

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