# Day 40 — Keep it useful; choose the next question

**Useful outcome:** Finish the actual collection and choose a justified next step.

**Prepare:** Actual source-labelled product/description; preserved first only if real; selected separate later source only under full gate.

**Partial opportunities:** AC9HS1S01, AC9HS1S03, AC9HS1S05, AC9HS1S06; selected K02 where evidenced. Refer to whole authority and explicit limits in the linked curriculum scope; opportunity is not observed mastery.

1. **Start ·3:** Read child invitation I10 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 seed catalogue has one actual entry and a planned second entry; show current work and future plan separately. Adult demonstration stays separate from child evidence.

3. **Guided source work ·part of 10:** Review actual source and work status. A matching later check requires preserved first before feedback, actual unrelated component-targeted teaching, interval/exposure/access/support/operator records and a suitable unexposed later source. If unavailable choose a suitable first or ordinary work; no later just because ten days passed.

4. **Own useful work ·rest of 10:** Child chooses keep/change/private share/finish. Give a supported conclusion and next question or proposal. Add an actual reader reply only if a willing person genuinely responds. Adults retain missing first/version/feedback as unavailable; a fresh finished collection is useful without a progress claim.

5. **Compare ·5:** Compare only actual like components and recorded conditions; changed support qualifies interpretation. Discuss what the collection can help find and what remains open. No automatic WW/A–E, whole-code gain, learned-interview conduct or whole-year certification.

6. **Notice and teach next ·2:** If a next question demands an answer we lack, offer a new adult-reviewed object-use source search. If an improvement is asserted without two versions, keep today's actual account. If interpretation is secure, try a new useful sorting criterion on an ordinary source.

### Three ways to take part

(a) **Private collection finish:** Choose a wanted final paper entry/heading and keep it with its sources; finish is a valid choice.

(b) **Give a collection tour:** Speak/sign/AAC/direct exact words through question, source, finding and unknown; no recording.

(c) **A next-question ticket:** Make a ticket for a future adult-reviewed source or modest label proposal; retain planned status until actually acted on.

All routes retain the access/attribution/stop choices above. **Observe:** An actual sourced conclusion/next step and honest conditions; any held later only under its recorded gate.

**Extra contexts:** C19/C20; **home:** H10; **optional larger making:** X10; **written read-aloud:** N10. Full source/own/staff separation follows the linked assessment selection guidance.

## Complete selected sources

### O8 — A collection at its present stage

Original fiction. A maker drew two collection entries and wrote their source names in 2026. The maker also wrote the question “Who made the game?” beside the second entry; the answer remains unknown. The maker plans to ask an organiser about a source pocket but has not sent that request. No visitor feedback is supplied. The written question is an actual stated action in the story; the unsent request is a plan; neither gives an answer. A learner's own actual today collection is separate and can be kept without inventing older versions.

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