Japanese / Year 5 and 6 / Communicating / Creating

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Curriculum content descriptions

Create and present or perform imaginative texts for a variety of purposes and audiences

[Key concepts: performance, audience, rhythm, digital text; Key processes: creating, performing, designing]

 (ACLJAC151)

Elaborations
  • creating and performing a presentation for a particular audience, for example, a puppet show or play for a buddy class or a performance for the school or community
  • designing and presenting a commercial for a new or existing product likely to appeal to consumers in their age group
  • creating a rap or song that involves experimentation with rhyme and rhythm
  • teaching younger children songs that involve repetitive phrases and actions, for example, songs from popular anime films
  • using familiar and modelled language to create imaginative digital texts, such as a photo story, an e-book or profile of an imagined avatar, for example, これ は たからじま です。大きい とりい と、(ちい)さい とりい が  あります。じてんしゃ で、大きい とりい に いきます。大きい とりい の (した) にはこ が あります。はこ の (なか) に (きん) が あります。
  • producing and presenting picture books/Big Books/mini books or short scripted scenarios for younger students, incorporating elements of Japanese language and culture that are likely to be unfamiliar, engaging or challenging
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Intercultural understanding Intercultural understanding
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
  • ICT capability Information and Communication Technology (ICT) capability
ScOT terms

Creating texts,  Imaginative texts,  Acting,  Japanese language

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