Content description VCASFC007

Auslan: First Language Learner F–10 Sequence / Foundation to Level 2 / Communicating / Creating

Content description

Express imaginative experience through creative games, role-play and mime, using familiar signs, modelled language and constructed action

Elaborations

changing elements of favourite stories to create their own versions, with a focus on varying manner or constructed action
interacting with imaginary characters using lexical and non-lexical signs and NMFs to express emotions such as excitement, fear or amazement
using iconic signs to create their own variations on familiar nursery rhyme actions, such as in ‘Incy Wincy Spider’
depicting the movement of people, animals or means of transport by using handshapes in creative ways
creating amusing sequences of signs using a fixed handshape, such as YOU THINK PRO1 SHY
experimenting with NMFs and handshapes to play games such as ‘Simon Says’, taking turns to be Simon
experimenting with facial expressions to match different emotional expressions, such as HAPPY, SCARED, TIRED
changing an aspect of a cartoon or picture story, using gestures, handshapes and NMFs to explain differences
representing objects using combined bodies and hands in amusing or creative ways
exploring the use of constructed action such as eye gaze change, body shift and head orientation when enacting imagined adventures
making their own handshape creations
assuming the role of a character from a story and responding to signed questions from classmates, such as:
YOUR NOSE DS:long-nose WHY?
Why is your nose so long, Pinocchio?

Code

VCASFC007

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