# The cardboard gallery cards · staff case

## Eligibility and exposure

Show the complete matched source only when beginning this case. If the child has already seen its staff worked answers, practised it, or received answer-level help, record that exposure and use it as supported/formative teaching rather than an independent first response. Later is a new source, not an automatic progress test.

## Help and actual evidence

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.

## Complete neutral source

Two complete original fictional texts describe a cardboard gallery. Text A is a visitor route note: ‘Shell drawings: go through the folded door and follow the dotted line to the shell table.’ Its image description shows the dotted line and a large sign labelled SHELL TABLE. The source gives no size of another sign. Text B is a story: ‘The paper shell rolled past the door, giggling as the dotted line tickled its edge.’ A visitor wants to find the shell drawings. Another reader wants a funny character event. The texts share a place but have different jobs. The image description also shows a square marker beside the folded door; Text A’s words do not name that marker. There is no real gallery, local direction or claim that a shell can giggle. Any added recommendation should stay distinguishable from the source’s words.

## C-first-Q1

### Invitation

Choose a text for the visitor finding the shell drawings and explain one supplied clue.

### Component criterion

Chooses A and supports its finding purpose using route labels/instructions or matching path image.

### Staff example after an attempt

Text A fits the finding job because it tells the route to the shell table. The story’s giggling event serves a different purpose.

### Judgement limit

Use this component-specific description with the actual response and recorded help. No point total, A–E level, diagnosis, causal gain or independent-exposure claim.

### Next teaching

N09 · AC9E3LY03, AC9E3LA03

## C-first-Q2

### Invitation

Explain what the large labelled sign emphasises. Do not invent another sign size.

### Component criterion

Connects the large SHELL TABLE sign to the destination, with no unsupported size comparison.

### Staff example after an attempt

It emphasises the shell-table destination. The source describes a large sign but gives no smaller sign to compare.

### Judgement limit

Use this component-specific description with the actual response and recorded help. No point total, A–E level, diagnosis, causal gain or independent-exposure claim.

### Next teaching

N10 · AC9E3LA09, AC9E3LY05

## C-first-Q3

### Invitation

Name one meaning the image adds beyond Text A’s words.

### Component criterion

Identifies the square door marker or another explicitly supplied visual relation absent from the words.

### Staff example after an attempt

The square marker beside the door is shown by the image description but is not named in Text A’s route sentence.

### Judgement limit

Use this component-specific description with the actual response and recorded help. No point total, A–E level, diagnosis, causal gain or independent-exposure claim.

### Next teaching

N11 · AC9E3LA09

## C-first-Q4

### Invitation

Write or say one recommendation to a story reader and signal that it is your recommendation.

### Component criterion

Recommends B for an imaginative/funny event with a source-supported reason, clearly as a personal recommendation.

### Staff example after an attempt

‘I recommend Text B if you want a funny event, because the shell giggles.’ is a recommendation, not a new source quote.

### Judgement limit

Use this component-specific description with the actual response and recorded help. No point total, A–E level, diagnosis, causal gain or independent-exposure claim.

### Next teaching

N12 · AC9E3LY01, AC9E3LY03, AC9E3LA02