Day 57 — Change the story in one interesting way
Child invitation: “What would happen if another character told this bit?”
Prepare: the full workshop story and a simple beginning/problem/action/ending map. Keep the original author's label beside the original source. Offer drawing, retelling, performance and typed/dictated alternatives.
Teach: choose a familiar story feature to adapt: narrator, setting, character purpose, useful action or ending. Preserve enough of the original structure to explain the connection, then invite the child's own change. Ask what that change does to the meaning. The new ending may be imaginative; it need not be a documented real-world result.
Three routes: direct a small object/puppet scene; draw a changed scene with an exact dictated caption; create a short spoken/signed/typed retelling. Keep a silent storyboard route and do not call it an observed spoken presentation.
Worked ordinary contrast: changing a red sign to a blue sign may be a genuine design preference but does not necessarily change the character's problem. Changing who can place the picture or whose idea is heard can change the plot. The learner chooses the change and reason.
Notice and next: if an entirely new story replaces the old one, enjoy it, then invite the learner to identify one original structure/language feature they chose to keep or change. If copying replaces adaptation, offer one small story decision with multiple valid possibilities.
Tiny home offer: give an invented story a different ending. It may be one spoken sentence or one drawing.
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: O02/O04
Useful output: one connected story adaptation
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.