Complete fictional source
This original fictional story has one completed arrival. A paper Lantern rides on a toy cart towards a cardboard gate. Ribbon stands at the gate waiting. Lantern thinks the gate looks like a tall mouth. Ribbon thinks it looks like the beginning of a parade. The cart rolls ‘rumble-rumble’ along the drawn track and stops beside Ribbon. Lantern says, ‘I made it!’ Ribbon waves one end. Lantern hopes to travel beyond the gate tomorrow, but the supplied story ends at the arrival beside Ribbon. The illustration description shows the stopped cart, Lantern and Ribbon beside the gate, with an empty track beyond it. Any imagined beyond-the-gate event is new fiction, not a completed event in this source. No real fire, powered cart or public parade is involved.
Four own invitations
Q1
Give one source-supported difference between Lantern’s and Ribbon’s views of the gate.
Q2
Choose a supplied language detail and explain a possible mood or reader effect.
Q3
Say what has finished and what remains an open future plan.
Q4
Retell the arrival from Ribbon’s view with one new noticing, preserving the supplied event.
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.