The stored A4 PDFs contain selectable text but are untagged. These linear alternatives carry every instruction and meaningful layout. An adult can describe them, draw broad spaces or offer an oral/sign route; no printing, physical handling or visual discrimination required.
A place of my own
One part is enough. Make it, tell it, or direct a maker.
One large empty rounded rectangular space, with no scene, child choice or character supplied. Use any part for a chosen imaginary place. An empty part can have a deliberately agreed meaning, or remain unchosen.
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A visitor, or my own idea
Look at broad shapes. No cutting or naming needed.
Three supplied broad shape suggestions across the upper row: an open round shape, a tall open rectangle and an open triangle. Three large empty rounded spaces below can carry own ideas. No face, job or pupil choice is supplied. Shapes have no universal cultural meaning.
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A way through my place
Choose a start and somewhere to go, or stay still.
One large empty rectangular map. A blank Start strip and a blank Somewhere to go strip sit underneath; neither names a location. No route, obstacle, result or shortest path is supplied. Use broad marks, description or adult-directed tracing in an imagined place.
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A little message
A mark, picture, word, sign or another way can carry it.
One large empty message area above two smaller empty areas labelled Its meaning here and For whom / private. No words, child message or recipient are filled. The adult can read labels and record an agreed meaning; no writing or letter-formation task is required.
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Groups for my purpose
Choose the meanings. A thing can fit both, or stay out.
Two equal large empty rounded group areas side by side, each with a separate blank meaning strip underneath. A wide empty shared / not chosen yet area sits below. No objects or grouping rules are supplied; there is no required two-group completion.
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Keep a part, change a part
A different version does not have to be better.
Two equal large empty rounded panels side by side, labelled One idea and A possible change. Neither contains a scene, earlier child work, action, result or improvement. A broad blank strip below is available for a wanted unchanged part, with none required.
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One useful thing for a visitor
Use one panel or more. No folding or reading test.
Three equal tall empty panels across the page. No scene, order, message or finished guide is supplied. One panel is a useful start; all may stay empty. The page need not be folded, cut, written on, shared or completed to take part in the play.
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What shall we do next?
Keep, change, different or finish. You choose.
Four equal broad boxes in a two-by-two arrangement: Keep upper left, Change upper right, Different lower left, Finish lower right. Each has ample empty space. No selected option or reward is shown. An adult can name the options; the child's usual communication or own alternative can choose. Finish stays available throughout.
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