Before the first lesson
Read the whole selected script and source. Have plain paper and a pencil or the child’s existing communication system. A printer and device are optional. Use a quiet space, a familiar adult and agreed breaks as appropriate. No purchase, public account, unfamiliar tactile task or personal disclosure is required.
Daily literacy and timing
Each script has six stages: start2min; shared read5min; model/word work5min; pupil choice8min; focused conference3min; wrap2min. This 25-minute core can be split, repeated or extended with the extras. Extend word study/individual reading in the school’s literacy block. These rich texts are not controlled decodables. Every day select a short school text and taught sound–letter items for actual independent decoding, reading and spelling; collect only the pupils actually observed. Two or three conference pupils per rotation is realistic, not a class-wide individual check.
Support and response
Adult reading supplies listening/viewing evidence. An adult scribe can record child composition; copying or dictation is not independent spelling/handwriting. AAC, sign, pointing or drawing may demonstrate ideas without evidence of voice features. A planned presentation is not an actual presentation; an adult reading a guide does not establish child delivery. Keep actual support, attempt and unobserved fields separate. Use joined handwriting only where actually taught, appropriate and produced; this source pack does not supply a dedicated joined-handwriting sequence.
Practical and cultural care
R1 is an invented drawing. Real-sample substitution requires an adult-approved source/sample and appropriate local safety/access check; looking at a supplied picture is enough. No unknown material is handled or sampled. Do not invent rock provenance, sacred knowledge, cultural dance or local facts. This original fiction is not evidence of the wide-ranging authorised First Nations/Australian/world literature requirement; plan that breadth separately with appropriate permissions and guidance.
Individual records
For each focused sample record: date; task/source; pupil response mode; adult access help; idea prompts; observed reading words/text; independent spelling sample; actual composition; actual delivery if any; next teaching; not observed components. No fixed repeated-trial count or home completion gate.
R1 · The specimen card
A drawing is evidence about the drawing. It cannot establish the age, hardness, origin or kind of a physical rock. If an adult substitutes an approved real sample or a photograph, keep the observation, source, scale and limits specific to that substitute. Looking only is a complete access route. No collecting, breaking, rubbing, licking, tasting, heating or handling unknown material.
F1 · The label that waited
Folding and whispering support possible interpretations, not a single certain feeling. The visitor is invented. Do not invent cultural stories, provenance or local rock facts to make a label interesting.
R2 · One record, two paragraphs
The first paragraph groups visible details; the second groups limits and a next question. In the first paragraph “sit” locates a drawn feature; it is not a claim that a rock moves.
N1 · Two notices for the model club
Different purpose, detail and wording matter. Notice A overstates kit availability compared with B. A vivid poster can still be accurate; do not teach that attractive design is evidence of dishonesty. These are fictional written sources, not evidence that a real kit is electrically safe.
L1 · Real source: membership summary
This is a dated paraphrase, not the full policy. Adults review the current page and the borrowing page before giving service advice. Children do not sign up, disclose details, present ID or visit a venue for this lesson.
L2 · Real source: borrowing summary
Membership does not mean every item is available to every person. No local branch, opening time, delivery time or fee is promised here. Adults update the two summaries, learner questions and matching guidance together if the primary pages change.
N2 · The two court notes
B gives a specific exception; its date helps explain the change. Newer is not automatically more trustworthy in every case. The text does not establish the court’s later schedule or whether a repair actually occurred.
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