Goal: read a cumulative sentence accurately and ask what the intended reader can see. Codes: AC9E1LY04, AC9E1LY05, AC9E1LY02, AC9E1LY09. Prepare: Day 21 choice, paper sign, blank reader figure.
- Retrieve · 3 min. Blend familiar
ship,stand,mend; point to one digraph and two separate blend sounds. Invite a spoken, signed or pointed answer. - Model · 5 min. Place a drawn sign facing away from a paper figure. Think aloud: “A sign can be made, yet a reader may not see it.” Read a chosen child line by pointing across every grapheme and then rereading in a phrase; show that the line, not a guess from the drawing, fixes its meaning.
- Guide · 7 min. Read the opening two paragraphs of The sign that faced the wall aloud. Partners say or show what Kori and Jules intended and what the model visitor actually faced. Read one chosen controlled line together and identify actor/action or object/location.
- Child try · 7 min. Children independently read their selected line, retell its exact event, then move a blank sign so the paper visitor could encounter it. Label a change as a proposed test, not a fact about a real hall. Record print and story talk separately.
- Exit · 3 min. Focus group rereads its line without the picture, then says one unanswered question about the model sign. If print was guessed from context, return to a first-to-last grapheme sweep.
Access/home/extension: Large print, tactile sign/figure and AAC “face wall/face door” choices. Home adult reads the original story opening and child explains the model; no local sign or location is requested. Extension: compare two invented sign positions and state what a paper visitor could test.