# Day 39 — Make a collection somebody can follow

**Useful outcome:** Build a small question-led exhibit with source-labelled items.

**Prepare:** Chosen O1–O8/F card and child's actual kept work if any; two sheets; blank collection mat.

**Partial opportunities:** AC9HS1S01, AC9HS1S02, AC9HS1S03, AC9HS1S04, AC9HS1S05, AC9HS1S06. Refer to whole authority and explicit limits in the linked curriculum scope; opportunity is not observed mastery.

1. **Start ·3:** Read child invitation I09 in the ordinary source menu. Invite a wanted useful product. Offer private work, rest, pass, stop or another route.

2. **Source/model ·5:** A fresh invented recipe folder keeps handwritten 2016 and typed 2024 sources on separate labels, with a shared question. Adult demonstration stays separate from child evidence.

3. **Guided source work ·part of 10:** Choose a manageable two-item collection and a real question it helps answer. Model on an unrelated invented recipe folder: one card says handwritten 2016; another says typed 2024. A useful heading connects the items while each label retains its own source.

4. **Own useful work ·rest of 10:** Child makes/describes two source-labelled entries, a chosen sorting rule/question, one supported connection and one unknown/follow-up. For one factual item alone, make a careful one-item catalogue rather than invent a comparison. Keep public-source facts, supplied fiction and actual today work visibly distinct.

5. **Compare ·5:** Offer an optional private find task: which source supports the selected detail? Child self-check or a willing reader's actual reply is enough. Record only a task actually attempted; revise at child direction. Public display, filming and performance are unnecessary.

6. **Notice and teach next ·2:** If source disappears in decoration, use fresh invented tool labels giving item/source/date/job/detail. If organisation is arbitrary, choose a question then test the heading against one entry before adding more.

### Three ways to take part

(a) **Tabletop pop-up collection:** Arrange reachable paper entries and broad heading; child chooses the route through them.

(b) **Tiny collection booklet:** Fold two pre-folded sheets or dictate a linear two-entry account, including the open question.

(c) **Local bench preview:** Use nine empty manual fields and linear preview to assemble a transient collection note; keep a wanted paper copy before leaving.

All routes retain the access/attribution/stop choices above. **Observe:** An actual question-led sourced account with a useful connection/unknown and attributed authorship.

**Extra contexts:** C17/C18; **home:** H09; **optional larger making:** X09; **written read-aloud:** N09. Full source/own/staff separation follows the linked assessment selection guidance.

## Complete selected sources

### O1 — The play-clue tray

Original fiction, three description cards recorded 2026. ItemP is a rectangular paper path with four broad spaces; its card says players choose a space in turns. ItemQ is a cloth square with a stitched star; its card does not describe how it was used. ItemR is a wooden wheel-shaped piece; its card says it was part of a toy cart. No card names a maker, owner or making date. The descriptions are supplied text, not a child's observation or an image of a real collection. These items can help a material question; the maker is unknown.

### 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.

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