These are teaching probes, not secure tests or formal assessment instruments. Present the source and brief neutrally. The child may draw, place a broad card, point or direct a neutral adult. Record the first response and support used before consulting the separate educator key. Passing or returning later is allowed. A paper choice is not evidence a real audience understood it or that digital media was made.
Check K · Three-dot legend
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Source: In this new fictional paper game, the printed legend says THREE DOTS = SQUARE TRAY. The one THREE DOTS sign is currently beside ROUND TRAY. SQUARE TRAY is unmarked. Both trays remain in the picture.
Brief: “Keep the legend and both trays. Put the one THREE DOTS sign beside the tray it names. Change only the sign’s placement.”
Child response: Show/direct the sign placement and explain what the local legend says. The adult writes the child’s exact explanation and does not relocate the sign first. The sign does not have a universal meaning outside this card.
Check L · No colour-only signs
A4 SVG · A4 PDF · exact text/tactile source.
Source: An invented paper game originally used a red CIRCLE outline for GO and a blue CIRCLE outline for PAUSE. On this black-and-white page, both signs are identical CIRCLE outlines. The words GO and PAUSE are read aloud and are not the thing the child must change.
Brief: “Keep GO and PAUSE meanings. Change one sign so the two can be told apart without colour. You may change outline shape, number of marks or safe tactile texture.”
Child response: Draw/select/direct one revised sign and name both resulting sign–meaning pairs. Do not provide a particular replacement shape before first response. The task concerns this paper game, not real traffic or safety signs.
After first responses, use different After Check sources to teach any needed idea. Record a next opportunity, not a diagnostic label or an assumed universal cultural reading.