Auslan: First Language Learner F–10 Sequence / Foundation to Level 2 / Communicating / Socialising
Content description
Participate in classroom routines and activities such as following directions, attracting attention, responding to questions and turn-taking
Elaborations
recognising their own and their classmates’ fingerspelled names used in games or routines such as roll call
asking for help, offering assistance or requesting permission in polite ways, for example:
PLEASE HELP-me?
Can you help me, please?
CAN SHARE?
Can we share these?
demonstrating attentive watching across a range of school contexts, such as assemblies or classroom discussions
following instructions for class routines, for example:
PLEASE WITH-2++ DS:sit-opposite
Please find a partner and sit opposite each other.
DS:line-up PLEASE
Line up, please.
LOOK-AT-me PRO1
Look to the front.
gaining others’ attention in appropriate ways, relying less on tap and more on other strategies, and responding to others’ attempts to gain their attention
following protocols such as stopping when lights are flashed, and observing appropriate distance between signers
learning to be a supportive group discussion member, for example by asking relevant questions, providing feedback, prompting, using NMFs to indicate agreement or disagreement
formulating different kinds of open and closed questions, including WHEN, WHY and HOW questions
signing appropriately to maintain or change a topic, to remain on task and take turns
interacting with each other or the teacher by using eye gaze and other NMFs to indicate agreement/disagreement or understanding/lack of understanding
negotiating turn-taking, for example:
PRO1 FIRST YOUR-TURN
It’s my turn first, then your turn.
watching, remembering and responding to increasingly complex instructions of two or more steps, for example by moving or locating objects in the classroom
using the appropriate NMFs for asking questions and making statements when interacting in small groups
