Keep exact sources, print and keys away from learners until the named day. Adult reads prose aloud and describes objects/images through the child's agreed access route. Save first independent answer, then any replay, prompt and revision. A fictional source protects privacy; no peer interview or family story is required. A child may pass on a real question. Print, sound/letter, oral comprehension, source attribution and composition are different evidence columns.
Day 135 · a fresh informative card
Prepare unseen: Cut two clean large card pieces with aligned bases: a short smooth square, 9 cm high, and a tall ribbed rectangle, 14 cm high. Make the ribs with broad safe raised paper strips; give nonvisual description/touch only as preferred. Put adult-read labels under them: “smooth card square” and “ribbed card rectangle.” No mass or strength result is given. Use safe broad pieces with no loose tiny parts; if a learner cannot access the material, present equivalent tactile/described cards and log the route. Do not show the setup or words before Day 135.
Adult says: “This invented display shows a smooth card square and a ribbed card rectangle. Their bases line up. The rectangle is taller in this pair. Nobody weighed or pressed either piece.” Ask (1) which piece is taller in this pair, (2) which property the adult-read labels add beyond a flat outline, (3) whether one is heavier, and (4) one accurate short label the child could make or direct. Ask child to separate a fact from a question to test. An adult may offer the two possible picture/object choices, but does not select for the child.
Print check: Privately show peg, rag, bun in mixed order with no image, only if their single-letter links are taught. With print hidden, dictate hem for sound boxes/tiles/writing. These four exact items are absent from earlier Foundation English pack text and from this fortnight's teaching pages; teach meanings after first blending if needed. Expected /p/ /e/ /g/, /r/ /a/ /g/, /b/ /u/ /n/ and /h/ /e/ /m/ in the locally used English pronunciation. Record oral phonemes, chosen graphemes and motor support separately; do not equate unfamiliar vocabulary with decoding difficulty.
Exact key: Rectangle is taller than square with bases aligned; “ribbed” and “smooth” are texture facts supplied by the labels/tactile route. Nothing given establishes mass, strength, every card object's property or best use. Accept a label such as “ribbed rectangle” or an accurate child-selected equivalent; a richer dictated phrase can be composition evidence, not child spelling. A proposal to weigh/press is a next test, not a result.
Next move: tall/short reversed → align two new broad strips at one base and recheck; caption/picture roles confused → hide image then caption, ask what each adds; “heavier” inferred from height → use a checked direct balance with safe different objects and explicitly record result; broad generalisation → add “these pieces/in this pair”; CVC sound or letter missed → reteach one link with a known word, then new unseen CVC; child idea present but label not edited → save first, let listener ask what object, then child directs revision.
Day 140 · a new fictional answer to report
Adult performs two paper roles, twice if access requires and logs repeat: Interviewer: “May I ask which paper pointer you would choose for this invented story board, a circle or a triangle? You may pass.” Fictional respondent Nema: “Yes. I choose the triangle for this one board. Its point helps my paper visitor find the next picture.” Interviewer: “Did you say the triangle helps your paper visitor find the next picture on this board?” Nema: “Yes. I did not say it works for every visitor.”
Ask learner to (1) report who said it, the exact choice and stated reason; (2) give a neutral follow-up question that the fictional respondent could answer or decline; (3) identify a claim the exchange does not support; and (4) direct one shared edit if the adult deliberately writes “Nema chose the circle.” Do not require a real conversation. If a child later delivers a peer report by voice, note that separately from the private AAC/sign route rather than assuming it here.
Print check: Privately show cub, rib, pod in mixed order, only at taught single-letter links. With print hidden, dictate gum. These four exact items are absent from earlier Foundation English pack text and this fortnight's teaching pages. Expected /c/ /u/ /b/, /r/ /i/ /b/, /p/ /o/ /d/, /g/ /u/ /m/ in the locally used pronunciation. For “cub,” /k/ is represented by c; adult can define a young animal after the print attempt. Record sound–letter choice, oral meaning and response mode separately.
Exact key: Nema chose triangle for this one invented board because she said its point helps her paper visitor find the next picture. She explicitly did not claim every visitor. A neutral follow-up could ask “Which picture did your visitor find?” or “Would you like to try the circle on this model?” with a pass/repeat route. The deliberately wrong “circle” report must be changed to triangle. Do not add an unspoken personal preference, disability, actual classroom vote or universal accessibility claim.
Next move: exact shape changed → replay the reply, place two picture choices, record new version; source absent → start report with “Nema said…”; reason invented → ask which words actually give the reason, then practise a different fictional reply with no reason; leading question → compare neutral two-choice wording and pass route; unsupported universal claim → contrast “this board” with “all visitors”; CVC gap → explicit one-link reteach then a fresh word, not repetition of scored item; secure report → compare two different fictional sources' answers without collapsing them into a class result.
Private record: learner code/date ; access route ; first object-source fact/question ; first interview source/choice/reason/follow-up ; first print sounds/letters ; exact adult read/repeat/help ; child edit ; next lesson/recheck ; any actual peer voice feature observed separately ___ . Store only under school policy; do not capture names, voice, photos or family/location information for this check.
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