Use: This key is public by URL. These first-response formative checks are not secure exams. Accept purpose-linked reasoning through speech, sign, AAC, drawing, pointing, scribing or child-directed adult action. Record content prompts, support, actual material handler and exact willing reader action separately. Credit a plan without falsely crediting making or testing.
Check A · Day 85 · Lantern Drawing Handoff
Held source: The fictional CLOSE CARD has ONE CIRCLE; the WIDE CARD has ONE CIRCLE AND TWO SQUARES from one invented drawing. No real lantern, source photograph, folder, user response or paper handling is provided. CLOSE alone cannot establish that nothing else exists outside its view.
Expected reasoning: Two distinguishable broad-folder proposals, such as side opening with a large outer CLOSE/WIDE label versus top opening with two large inside shape-and-word labels. Child chooses for the named new reader, says the folder might keep both views available and distinguishes CLOSE's visible circle from WIDE's additional squares. To establish findability, a willing reader would need an approved ordinary find request, with their exact selected card/action recorded. To establish material making, an actual child-controlled fold/insert under adult approval would need observing; adult-only handling is adult evidence. No prior result is printed.
Next moves: If both ideas only change colour, ask for an opening/card location/word-shape label difference after saving the first work. If the child says the squares do not exist because CLOSE omits them, reveal WIDE and revisit “not shown” versus “not there” without converting this into a media or maths grade. If a folder drawing is treated as working, ask who actually folded and which real reader found what. A user needing a spoken or tactile cue can receive one without requiring visual reading.
Check B · Day 90 · Garden-view Request Handoff
Held source: A fictional school has a teacher-provided large paper picture at a garden-view table. The class asks whether they may return it to the class shelf, with a reason. SCHOOL CONTACT ANSWER is blank. This is not an actual place, school procedure, authorised reply, visit or care action.
Expected design evidence: Two genuinely different large-folder designs for carrying a request and later real answer together; a reasoned choice for a responsible adult; adult approval of clean broad blunt paper/table/access; child folding/insertion only if locally approved and supervised or accurate adult-directed/plan-only route; an ordinary willing reader question if a safe try actually happens; honest revision or unknown. Keeping the question and answer spaces distinguishable is a design feature. A preprinted or imagined “yes” is not an answer.
Conditional result key: Permission status from this source is WAITING / NO ANSWER. Only an actual authorised school contact, under local school process, can give an actual answer; do not infer it from a folder, role play or child's expectation. NOT TRIED describes material making and reader finding if neither happened. If a school-approved broad-paper practice folder is actually made, record who folded and inserted and the willing reader's exact selection/words; a single retrieval shows only that one interaction, not durability, retention under stress or permission. No physical or permission result is printed.
Next moves: If the child puts YES in the blank answer, ask who actually had authority and replied; restore blank/WAITING on first source while preserving the child's idea separately. If the request/answer cards are mixed, propose larger outside/inside source labels and a later approved reader check. If no physical try occurs, teach toward a safe sequence and mark physical evidence not observed. If a child describes garden facts or Country/Place, ask for a locally authorised actual source rather than scoring this fictional brief as HASS, Science or cultural knowledge.
Compact educator record: user/purpose; two ideas; choice/reason; source truthfulness; safe material plan; who physically acted, if anyone; exact willing reader response or NOT TRIED; permission status; change/unknown; access route and adult content prompt. Keep identified records under school rules.