Auslan: First Language Learner 7–10 Sequence / Levels 7 and 8 / Communicating / Creating
Content description
Participate in the viewing of recorded or live imaginative signed texts, responding through drawing, miming, gesture or modelled signs
Elaborations
viewing narratives in Auslan, for example, from the Auslan Storybooks website, demonstrating understanding through drawing, gesture and modelled signs
responding to short expressive texts that involve the movement of people, animals or vehicles, demonstrating understanding through drawings or familiar signs
responding to key elements of short signed stories, for example by mimicking facial expressions or repeated signs
participating in interactions in Auslan that involve imaginative responses to stimuli such as cartoons using gestures, handshapes, facial expressions and simple signs to suggest what happens next in the story
engaging with different forms of Deaf art, such as handshape creations, and responding by creating their own piece of art on a similar theme
shadowing NMFs in short Auslan poems or narratives
retelling favourite events of an Auslan story using modelled signing
engaging in imaginative interactions that involve the creation of mood or momentum through repeated use of signs, handshapes and facial expressions to modify manner or intensify adjectives
responding to performances of Deaf poetry that evoke emotions such as sadness, fear or excitement, for example by indicating enjoyment or different personal feelings
