The paint-box helper · neutral source

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.