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Chinese / Foundation to Year 2 / Understanding / Systems of language
Curriculum content descriptions
Recognise Chinese characters as a form of writing and Pinyin as the spelled-out sounds of spoken Chinese (ACLCHU011)
Elaborations
- differentiating Chinese characters from other forms of written expression, for example, the Roman alphabet, visual images (drawing)
- recognising that each character has meaning, and exploring the connection between meaning and form, for example, pictographs such as 人 (‘person’), 日 (‘sun’)
- examining which initials and finals can be guessed from English, for example, ‘mama’ as opposed to ‘gege’
- copying or tracing characters with attention to stroke order and direction
- identifying syllables that make up Chinese words, such as 小/老/鼠 (xiǎo/lǎo/shǔ), and understanding that words such as 熊猫 (xióng māo) have two syllables, with each syllable having a meaning
- making connections between words sharing a common syllable/morpheme, for example, 小狗、小猫、小朋友
- building new words by combining familiar meanings such as 红+苹果
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Morphemes, Chinese languages, Chinese characters, Pinyin