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Three switchable routes per day · same devising targetFoundation Drama · T1 W3–4 · Learner Cards

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Do not assign children to “learning styles”. Offer routes as choices and let a child switch, combine or pass. The common target is the child's devised scene decision and intended effect/question. Optional physical enactment, live timing, voice and real-audience evidence are separate; a directed paper figure is not a performed child role. An adult never fills in a scene decision for the child.

Day Opt-in safe enactment Broad paper/puppet direction Quiet drawing, words or AAC
11 Child places a cleared broad box on an empty fictional workbench and chooses when it appears. Child directs an adult puppet and fixed box card into absent/present moments. Draw or select “no box / box” and give a possible audience question by words/AAC.
12 Child chooses whether to move a cleared broad screen to reveal the fixed box; no surprise. Direct an adult to hide/reveal the box behind a fixed opaque card. Draw two frames or say which frame covers the box and which shows it.
13 Child opts to hold a large clue card, then show a large box card, in their chosen order. Direct adult puppet/screen between dot clue and full box. Select clue/full-view symbols and name one unknown left by the clue.
14 Child slowly raises a silent cue card before or after a screened reveal, as chosen. Direct adult puppet/cards into chosen numbered cue/reveal order. Draw two numbered events or choose AAC “cue first / reveal first” with a reason.
15 Child safely enacts their first chosen order for fresh I, if willing and locally approved. Direct a neutral adult to place striped-rectangle cue and triangle-parcel reveal in empty numbered boxes. Draw/select two event cards in order and identify which comes first.
16 Child elects to stand or move near/far from a cleared paper prop in safe space; no second child needed. Direct broad fixed figure between near/far stage-map positions. Draw/describe the chosen figure-prop distance and intended scene question.
17 Child chooses a slow non-contact entrance across a locally cleared border; no running. Direct adult puppet from outside to inside a fixed stage frame after cue. Draw two positions or select outside/inside AAC symbols in order.
18 Child opts into a short cue/entrance/reveal scene they devised; no public showing required. Direct three broad fixed moment cards and adult puppet in original order. Draw or dictate three numbered moments and one intended viewer question.
19 If authorised, child watches/encounters real maker work and may share their own short scene with a willing person. Use an approved accessible description of real work; direct puppet scene for optional actual willing viewer. Respond to authorised real-work source by AAC/drawing; choose actual audience, later, rehearsal or pass.
20 Child safely enacts fresh J's outside-to-inside and hidden-to-visible changes after a cue, if willing. Direct adult with broad figure/screen/token/cue cards; save first two-frame arrangement. Draw or specify start/end figure and prop visibility, cue timing and a possible question.

Day 19 hold: Without a cleared real maker/work source, all routes can practise maker questions using a teacher-authored fiction, but do not establish AC9ADRFE01 real-work encounter evidence. Likewise, a paper or puppet plan cannot show child performance skill. A puppet scene actually shown to a willing person may evidence sharing of that mode, which must be named honestly.