Auslan: First Language Learner F–10 Sequence / Foundation to Level 2 / Communicating / Socialising
Content description
Participate in group learning activities that involve taking turns, playing action games, making choices or swapping and classifying items
Elaborations
participating in signing songs and games that involve repeated signs, gestures and NMFs, for example, I went to the market and I bought … Old MacDonald had a farm …
participating in activities that involve classifying objects by attributes such as shapes, colours and numbers
following directions in activities such as an obstacle course or action game, using directional terms or depicting signs such as
DS:turn-left DEAD-END DS:turn-right
Go left, then at the end turn right.
PLEASE BRING MILK FRIDGE DS:open-door POINT
Please bring the milk; it’s at the bottom of the fridge door.
playing games that involve choice, memory or information exchange to reinforce number skills or language patterns
collaborating in art or craft activities that involve making decisions about choices or contributions
participating in barrier games and other information-gap activities that focus on describing appearance or scenes, such as a game of ‘Guess Who’ on paper with some characters named on paper A and some not named on paper B, and vice versa; taking turns to describe appearance of the characters with no name and having partner fingerspell their names back
participating in role-plays that involve scenarios such as ordering a meal, buying food or other items, transacting payment or giving feedback
