# Day 55 — Keep one first source response


**Child invitation:** “Here's a new little job. Show what you think; we can do one part.”

**Prepare:** teacher-selected complete first source, neutral own four-component response, exact prerequisite/exposure record and separate staff criteria. The source and pictures must be available in full. Do not assume that ordinary guide practice makes any source unseen or a child independently print-ready.

**Teach/capture:** select only components actually relevant and eligible. Offer neutral adult reading or exact scribing when wanted, naming that help. Capture the child's own response, including partial/declined/not observed. Keep models and criteria out of this first attempt. Use one specific next teaching activity once capture ends.

**Three routes:** independently matched source and own marks; neutral adult-read source and usual communication; short separated components with exact child-directed scribing. These are different evidence conditions, not equivalent reading scores.

**Notice and next:** use the relevant component's complete criterion/next activity, not an average or a generic “try again”. A child's idea may be interesting even when it does not yet answer the offered source question.

**Tiny home offer:** choose any ordinary story/guide for enjoyment. Do not send held keys or a required first/later rehearsal home.

## Six useful stages

**Welcome:** Offer the complete short child invitation above; quietly watching, pausing, private work and switching route are valid.

**Read together:** Read/hear the complete named source and full alternative. Enjoy meaning before task questions. Adult reading supplies access, not independent decoding.

**Model:** Use the complete ordinary contrast in the lesson, keeping the model different from own work. On capture days read only neutral source/prompts and finish capture before staff examples.

**Own try:** Follow one of the three complete purpose-preserving routes above. Start with genuinely empty space; an adult records exact child choices and names support.

**Notice:** Use the complete notice/next section above and record actual help, source/key exposure, mode and component. No speed, neatness or total-box score.

**Keep or next:** Use the complete tiny home invitation if wanted, or keep privately/stop. No printer, upload, returned evidence or earlier draft is compulsory.

**Sources:** selected first family

**Useful output:** one eligible own first response

**Small start:** One sentence, one clue, one diagram relation or one offered component can be enough; use a fresh empty page if prior work is unavailable.

**Print:** Complete conditional retrieval and exposure contract in PRINT-ACCESS.md; never label a rich source decodable by Year2 alone.

**Timing:** 20–35 minutes is unpiloted adult planning advice, not a timer or daily allocation.