An adult can read full linear words and tactile directions. You may point, speak, sign, use AAC, draw or direct an adult to mark large whole-page cards. These are not secure exams. All cases are fictional. You do not need to share a real family, birth/raising place, home, special place, celebration or Country/Place. Teachers collect first responses before discussing answers.
Check A · Day 65 · Harbor album
Use the large A4 Harbor album or its full text. These are invented people and sources.
Source 1 · made-up album page: Nora and Vee are cousins. Bo is their grandfather. Bo was born in Hobart and grew up in Broome. Nora was born in Townsville. The page shows two anonymous person symbols marked Nora and Vee; it gives no other birth or growing-up statement.
Source 2 · Nora's own note: “I liked our paper-map day. Bo folded the corner.” Nora wrote these words in the fictional story.
- How are Nora and Vee related? Who is Bo to them? Name the source that says this.
- Put Bo's born place and grew up place in different fields. Which place does the album name for Nora?
- Whose liking does Source 2 tell us about? Does it tell us Vee's view of the paper-map day?
- Ask one question the two sources cannot answer about Vee or a place. Finish “These sources say ; they do not tell me .”
This is an invented source packet; no real family or classroom event was recorded.
Check B · Day 70 · Pillar Nook
Use the large A4 Pillar Nook page or its full text. All place features and people are invented.
Source 1 · paper place drawing: a drawn BENCH is LEFT, a ROUND RUG is at CENTRE, and a rectangular BOOK STAND is RIGHT. The bench has a top and two legs; the rug is an actual circle; the stand is upright.
Source 2 · Ava's view: “This place is special to me; I hear stories on the rug.”
Source 3 · Lou's view: “I would rather see a book on the stand.”
Source 4 · maker's idea: “We could ask where to place a large book.” This is an idea, not a completed rearrangement.
- Locate the three features in Source 1. Tell which shape is at centre and which is right.
- Whose words give a reason the place is special to them? What does Lou prefer? Name the source for each.
- Choose a careful message: A “The maker could ask where to place a large book”; B “The book was moved and every visitor liked it.” Explain your choice and what the source drawing shows.
- Ask one question needing an approved real source before saying a real shared place was cared for or improved. Finish “The fictional sources say ; they do not prove .”
No real book, classroom place or visitor outcome was observed for this check.