Ask a question that helps someone · a small home offer

Read the complete source: C01 · A quiet-seat question · C02 · A helper’s useful question

Ask a question that helps someone · a small home offer

Who is it for? Ask one useful question. Leave space for the answer.

Before you begin

The complete matched C source travels with this offer; an adult can read it. It is ordinary taught material, not an unseen case.

First adult words

1. Find one small decision with a willing family member, such as where to put a shared story. Ask one question, or use the supplied quiet-seat answer if everyone is busy.

2. Read the matched fictional source together. Ask which reader or character the child wants to help. Use the child direction: ‘Who is it for? Ask one useful question. Leave space for the answer.’

3. Offer scrap paper, objects, pointing, speech/sign or exact dictation. Stop after one useful small piece; no class workbook or internet is required.

Later adult words

1. Invite the child to show one part and explain it using the source. If useful, ask the supplied reader question or reread the relevant source detail.

2. Notice whether the question has a reader, a usable choice or focus, and a purpose. Record any prompting. Do not infer actual turn-taking from the finished card.

3. If you supply a word, answer, model or pen work, say so in a note. Keep the piece private unless you and the child choose a permitted reader. This offer is not an independent assessment by itself.

Optional extra

Return to the second matched ordinary source C02 for the same day's purpose, introducing its full source first. Do not quietly switch to a different day or held case.

Time

5–15 minutes suggested, unpiloted; stop, shorten or resume.