Standard Chinese: Australian curriculum – Key learning areas for Stage 1 (Years 1&2):

Strand: Communicating meaning in Chinese

Sub-strand: Interacting in Chinese

• recognise and respond to modelled classroom-related greetings, instructions and routines; and personal introductions AC9LC2C01
• participate in a range of guided, play-based language activities using formulaic expressions, visual and spoken cues AC9LC2C02

Sub-strand: Mediating meaning in and between languages

• locate, with support, key information in familiar texts, and respond using gestures, images, words and formulaic phrases AC9LC2C03
• notice that language carries cultural meaning in classroom-related greetings, introductions, instructions and routines AC9LC2C04

Sub-strand: Creating text in Chinese

• with support, use words, familiar phrases and modelled language to create spoken, written and multimodal texts, copying some familiar characters and Pinyin AC9LC2C05

Strand: Understanding language and culture

Sub-strand: Understanding systems of language

• recognise and imitate the sounds and rhythms of Chinese AC9LC2U01
• recognise that Chinese components and/or characters are used to construct meaning in texts AC9LC2U02
• notice that Chinese has features that may be similar to or different from English AC9LC2U03

Sub-strand: Understanding the interrelationship of language and culture

• notice that people use language in ways that reflect cultural practices AC9LC2U04