Languages

With plenty of support, notice and share meaning in Spanish, for example by using greetings and gestures, saying your name and age, naming family members and pets, counting, and joining in songs and rhymes.

With support, explore features of Spanish and spot ways it is similar to and different from English, like tracing letters, imitating new sounds and noticing look-alike words.

Explore how language and culture connect, for example the many places Spanish is spoken, different ways people greet each other, and the languages of First Nations Australians in your local area.

Recognise and respond to modelled Spanish for classroom life: greetings and farewells, instructions and routines like stating the day, the weather and how you feel, and introducing yourself.

Join in guided games and play using set phrases with visual and spoken cues, such as taking turns, matching and swapping items, and sorting objects by shape, colour and number.

With support, find key words and information in familiar stories, songs and texts, and respond by labelling, matching, drawing or using simple words and phrases, such as answering questions about an animal's colour or how many there are.

Notice that everyday language like greetings, introductions and classroom routines carries cultural meaning, such as which greeting suits the time of day or the person you are speaking to.

Use familiar words, phrases and modelled language to create your own spoken, written and multimodal texts, like a self-portrait with captions, a greeting card or labelled pictures.

Recognise and copy the sounds and rhythms of spoken Spanish, including sounds English does not have, like the letter enye and the rolled double r.

Recognise that Spanish uses the Roman alphabet and its own patterns to make meaning, like nouns having a gender, adjectives following nouns, and numbers used for ages, dates and telling the time.

Notice features of Spanish that are similar to or different from English, like look-alike words with different pronunciations, plural endings, and upside-down question and exclamation marks.

Notice that people use language in ways that reflect their culture, such as formal and informal ways of addressing people, and that Spanish is the national language of 21 countries with plenty of regional variety.

Start exchanges and answer modelled questions about yourself, others and the classroom using set expressions, like formal and informal greetings, family and friends, the weather, days of the week and school subjects.

Take part in activities that involve planning with others using familiar phrases and modelled structures, like making matching-pair word games for family members, food, weather and animals.

Find and respond to key information about familiar topics in spoken, written and multimodal texts, like classifying items by colour, size or price, or surveying classmates about favourite animals and birthdays.

Build strategies to understand Spanish in familiar situations and adjust your language to carry cultural meaning, like comparing everyday Spanish expressions with their closest English equivalents.

Create and present informative and imaginative spoken, written and multimodal texts using set expressions, simple phrases and sentences and modelled text conventions, like a class display about fruits or animals.

Recognise and use modelled combinations of sounds, pronunciation and intonation to form Spanish words and phrases, like using a word you can already spell to predict how a new word is spelled.

Recognise Spanish conventions, grammatical structures and basic word order in familiar texts, like singular and plural forms, gender agreement, common verbs, and numbers used for quantities, dates, ages and telling the time.

Recognise familiar Spanish language features and compare them with English in known contexts, like comparing the wording and word order of greeting cards, menus or invitations in both languages.

Identify connections between the Spanish language and cultural practices, like naming conventions, terms of affection, and language used at mealtimes and special occasions.

Start and keep up modelled exchanges about your personal world and school life, choosing greetings and forms of address that suit the time of day, the relationship and the situation.

Take part in activities that involve planning and negotiating with others, using language that shares information, preferences and ideas, like role-playing buying and selling clothes in different colours and sizes.

Find and process information and ideas in a range of spoken, written and multimodal texts and respond in ways that suit the purpose, like reading a weather report and deciding what clothing to pack.

Apply strategies to interpret and convey meaning in Spanish across familiar non-verbal, spoken and written cultural contexts, like making bilingual word walls or politely asking a speaker to repeat something.

Create and present a range of informative and imaginative spoken, written and multimodal texts, using varied modelled sentence structures to order information and ideas, and conventions that suit the text type.

Apply what you know about sound combinations, syllables, pronunciation and intonation to say known words and phrases with growing fluency and rhythm, like reading diphthongs, accents and regional variations.

Use modelled grammatical structures and set expressions to compose and respond to texts with the right punctuation and conventions, like present and past tenses, the two Spanish verbs for 'to be', and opening question marks.

Compare some Spanish language structures and features with English ones using familiar grammar terms, like where adjectives sit, grammatical gender and dropping the subject pronoun.

Recognise that language reflects cultural practices, values and identity and shapes how people communicate, like the indigenous languages spoken alongside Spanish and the words they have given it.