Year 3

tudents communicate in Italian, interacting and socialising with their teacher and peers to exchange information about friends and family members. They participate in class experiences and everyday transactions that involve following instructions, asking questions and making statements. Students locate specific points of information in a range of short spoken, written or multimodal texts and convey factual information about their personal worlds in simple statements. They participate in and respond to a range of imaginative texts, identifying and comparing favourite elements and making simple statements about characters or themes. Students create and perform short imaginative texts that use familiar expressions and modelled language as well as simple visual supports.

Students become familiar with the systems of the Italian language, experimenting with pronunciation and noticing the difference in intonation between statements, exclamations and commands. They recognise some of the rules of spelling and punctuation and begin to write high-frequency words and expressions in familiar contexts. They notice and use context-related vocabulary and apply elements of grammar in simple spoken and written texts to generate Italian for a range of purposeful interactions such as using possessive adjectives with io, tu, lui and lei to express ownership. They begin to develop a metalanguage in Italian for talking about language, using terms similar to those used in English. Students are encouraged to describe their Italian learning experiences and explore their own sense of identity and ways that they use language differently when they are interacting with different people.

In Year 3 students require extensive support with their language learning. Tasks are carefully scaffolded, models and examples are provided along with support for self-monitoring and reflection. Students are encouraged to use Italian as much as possible for classroom routines, social interactions and for learning tasks.