# A useful return routine

Purpose: leave a next start possible while keeping finished work. Capture the child’s chosen keep/return idea before a model. Communicate separate finished-work and blank-ready roles, or a wanted pause option. Perform one suitable placement if wanted, naming its actor; otherwise draw/tell proposed views. A returned part does not show another use occurred. If the purpose or conditions change, record the new job rather than compare unlike outcomes. Keep private/unshared work valid and don't measure tidiness, compliance or handling. Next help uses an unrelated return-with-no-next-event account, then invites one own missing step.

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Purpose: leave a next start possible while keeping finished work. Capture the child’s chosen keep/return idea before a model. Communicate separate finished-work and blank-ready roles, or a wanted pause option. Perform one suitable placement if wanted, naming its actor; otherwise draw/tell proposed views. A returned part does not show another use occurred. If the purpose or conditions change, record the new job rather than compare unlike outcomes. Keep private/unshared work valid and don't measure tidiness, compliance or handling. Next help uses an unrelated return-with-no-next-event account, then invites one own missing step.

[Teacher plan](../teacher/day-187.html) · [Paper/usual communication](../interactive/PAPER.html).

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