# Day 183 · Another way to get the job ready

**Purpose:** communicate meaningful alternatives and choose for purpose, preference or actual availability. [C05](../contexts/C05.html)/[C06](../contexts/C06.html), [H03](../home/H03.html)/[X03](../projects/X03.html).

1. Read back an own job or invite a new one if earlier work is unavailable or unwanted.
2. Save a first proposed arrangement before showing alternatives. Ask what is ready and how someone starts.
3. Use one route to create a meaningfully different way. An alternative can change layout, cue form or order; a new colour alone need not change operation.
4. After both ideas, show [C05](../contexts/C05.html)'s side-by-side and next-sheet proposals. Ask what the user would do differently, without declaring a winner.
5. Invite a chosen idea and reason. “Neither” with a revised purpose is useful; no physical testing is required to have a preference.
6. Keep both actual own proposals and the reason. Do not invent an earlier version when there was none.

**Routes:** draw two different ready/use views for one job; direct two different broad-paper arrangements to a willing helper and name their actions; tell a picture-cue routine and a spoken-cue routine for the same job without making either. These differ in representation and operation.

**Notice/next teaching:** a meaningful relationship difference and an own reason. If both copies only differ in decoration, use unrelated [C06](../contexts/C06.html)'s paused-versus-continuous routine to teach an action difference, then return to own work.

[Short child start](../child/day-183.html) · [Read together](../narration/day-183.html) · [Blank own mats](../aids/INDEX.html).

Modified from [Prep alignment](https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/downloads/aciqv9/technologies/curriculum/ac9_tech_design_prep_as_cd_alignment.pdf), [Prep standard elaborations](https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/downloads/aciqv9/technologies/assessment/ac9_tech_design_se_prep.pdf) and [Prep techniques and conditions](https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/downloads/aciqv9/technologies/assessment/ac9_tech_design_technique_cond_prep.pdf), © State of Queensland ([QCAA](https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/copyright)) 2023, [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), subject to item exceptions. Original stories, tasks, criteria and pictures are SubjectNest work. No endorsement.

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