AC9LC2U02

Elaborations

• AC9LC2U02_E1making and copying components and/or characters from playdough, strings, found objects, blocks and chalk
• AC9LC2U02_E2making connections among characters sharing the same radicals, such as water 氵 in 河, 池, 海, and discussing ways to minimise water-use in daily life
• AC9LC2U02_E3viewing different ways Chinese can be written, vertically or horizontally, and comparing this with texts in other scripts, especially languages within the class, such as Arabic, Japanese and Hindi
• AC9LC2U02_E4making connections between words sharing a common syllable/morpheme, for example, 小狗, 小猫, 小朋友
• AC9LC2U02_E5replacing words in modelled sentences to express a personal meaning, for example, replacing 弟弟 in 我有弟弟 with 妹妹 to say 我有妹妹
• AC9LC2U02_E6building new words by combining familiar meanings, for example, 红+苹果
• AC9LC2U02_E7copying and tracing components and/or characters with attention to stroke order, using air gestures, chalk, writing in sand and mini whiteboards, or using a different colour for each stroke to create rainbow writing
• AC9LC2U02_E8differentiating Chinese characters from other forms of written expression, such as the Roman alphabet and other languages present within the class, for example, Korean, Japanese or Arabic