# The paint-box helper

## Complete fictional source

This is a complete fictional source for a small helper job. A pretend art table has a shallow blue tray and a tall cardboard box. A new helper needs to carry paper picture cards to the story mat. The supplied helper answer says, ‘I choose the shallow blue tray because I can see the cards.’ This answer was supplied for the task; no real person was interviewed. Yesterday, Lee wrote the answer on a card. Tomorrow, Lee plans to add a tray label. The label has not been made. A drawing description shows a tray with visible paper cards and a separate blank label card. Nothing in the source says which container is strongest or waterproof. A question should help this helper decide about the card-carrying job. A message can report the supplied answer and separately offer a new idea.

## Four own invitations

### Q1

Write or say one question that helps this helper choose a container for the paper cards.

### Q2

Report the helper’s supplied choice and reason in one or two sentences.

### Q3

Explain whether Lee has already made the tray label. Point to the words that help.

### Q4

Add one new suggestion and show with words that it is your suggestion, not the helper’s answer.

## Ways to respond

Adult reading of the full source, usual communication, larger print, breaks, pointing and exact dictation are allowed; record which. Do not supply a component’s worked answer or criterion before a genuine first response. Reading aloud means this case cannot by itself demonstrate independent decoding; adult pen work cannot demonstrate handwriting.

Original neutral first/later formative source, not a calibrated official assessment band.


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