Try a reader question and keep what helps
Day 40 · Try a reader question and keep what helps
Review a chosen guide, explain a useful change and plan the next teaching from actual evidence.
Teacher preparation
Use the full source in the learner’s usual communication route. Choose a small useful product; models are teaching help, not independent evidence. Note actual help, model exposure and source version. This is a sequence day, not a dated class calendar.
Complete source C19
Complete original feedback story: A writer’s first guide says “Look on the page with the kit.” A fictional reader says “I’m not sure which page you mean.” The writer drafts “Open Kit parts on page1.” No second reader response is supplied.
The first comment is not a classroom trial or proof the revision worked.
Complete source C20
Complete original folio pair. First words: “The card has a thing in the middle.” Chosen revision: “The round badge has a square hole in the middle.” Source: the C01 invented badge record. Writer note: “I chose these words to help someone find that drawing.” No independent reader test is recorded.
A revision can show a text-making choice; it does not automatically show independent decoding, spelling, handwriting or successful use.
Six complete teaching moves
1. Read C19’s whole feedback story, preserving the absent second-reader result. Invite the child to choose one guide part they made or begin a new C20 version.
2. Model the explicit heading/page revision and a separate question about whether it helps the reader. Do not turn the fictional feedback into a real success claim.
3. Prepare a short private show/tell only if wanted. Rehearsal and actual delivery/listening/interaction are recorded separately; no forced voice, gaze or public performance.
4. A willing actual reader may ask one useful question; exact own words and help are preserved. Children may instead review the complete fictional pair through paper/sign/AAC/dictation.
5. Keep first/revised words and the child’s reason. Name anything unobserved. Reserve any future fresh assessment source until after saved first evidence and actually recorded next teaching.
6. Choose one next step: clearer detail, better grouping, a more useful pointer, source limit or actual taught word skill. Keep the guide private or share only with local consent.
Three meaningful routes
1. Use C19 to explain the pointer change and ask what still needs checking.
2. Compare C20’s two full captions against C01 and keep or create your own improvement.
3. Choose one own guide part, show it privately in your usual route, and let an adult record your reason without adding one.
At a genuinely taught word point
Individually revisit a genuinely taught word from the selected guide. Unobserved decoding, spelling and joined handwriting remain unobserved; copied forms do not establish independence.
Observe a useful contribution
A source-supported keep/change reason or reader question relates to the stated job; actual interaction/presentation is evidenced only where it occurred.
Next teaching
Use the observed component to choose a complete different next source; offer actual teaching before treating any later attempt as follow-up evidence.
Curriculum opportunity
AC9E3LY02, AC9E3LY06, AC9E3LY07
These are partial or conditional opportunities. Adult-read sources do not establish independent reading, handwriting or spelling. Use the full curriculum account and actual school folio.