# A sorting rule that fits the question

Let’s sort for a reason. Pick a question. Make groups that help you answer it.

Paper, telling/signing/AAC, private work, rest or finish are all okay. A helper can read the source or do the moving you choose.

## Pick a way

(a) **Two-room collection:** Draw two broad rooms labelled with the chosen criterion and direct the object descriptions into them.

(b) **Sorter radio:** Describe each placement by usual communication; a helper moves only what the child directs.

(c) **Change the question:** Make two small lists for two different questions and point out one item whose placement changes.

## Complete selected sources

### O4 — Sort for the job

Original fiction, play-folder descriptions written 2026. Folded Path: paper, a turn-taking path game. Story Patch: cloth, used to tell a pretend story without a recorded turn rule. Picture Pair: paper, a matching game with turns. Mystery Board: material not stated, used for a turn-taking guessing game. No manufacture dates are supplied. Under a paper-material question, Folded Path and Picture Pair fit; Mystery Board belongs in material-unknown, not automatically non-paper. Under a turns question, Folded Path, Picture Pair and Mystery Board fit; Story Patch has no described turn rule, rather than proof no storyteller ever used turns. The two question/rule sorts need different honest group headings.

<figure><img src="../aids/V04.svg" alt="Original labelled source illustration or empty making mat. Complete text alternative follows."><figcaption>Original illustration. No meaning relies on colour.</figcaption></figure>

[Whole drawing and complete text alternative](../aids/V04-alternative.html).


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Offer one wanted route, not all three. Read the source neutrally, or support sign/AAC, dictation, broad marks and child-directed operation. Keep adult work separate. Rest, private work, pass or finish are valid options. [Full teacher plan](../teacher/day-33.html) · [Blank making mats](../aids/OWN.html).

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