# Day 14 — Compare the same thing

**Purpose/codes:** Interpret formats and identify change/continuity using a common feature; K01/S02/S03/S05. **Prepare:** O14 table and descriptions; [complete original paired garden frames and text](../aids/O14-garden-pair-alternative.html). **Child start:** “Look at the same part in both records. What changed? What stayed?”

1. **Invite:** O14 INVENTED garden table: 2003—one entrance, gravel path, fence; 2021—one entrance, paved path, fence. A separate 2021 note says the pavement was laid, but supplies no reason or visitor feedback.
2. **Model:** Put PATH above both entries; change gravel→paved. Put ENTRANCE above both—one in each record. Explain that “same” means these records agree on this selected feature, not that nothing else changed.
3. **Guide:** Children link a text phrase/table entry to a matched sketch caption. Any illustration must faithfully show these supplied features without claiming an actual garden image. Ask whether the records establish better access: no, a physical feature record is not a complete access evaluation.
4. **Choose:** Use one route; choose a feature consistently. Reuse the earlier map-key convention only as a support, not proof that K03 is complete.
5. **Check:** Child gives a supported change, a supported continuity and one unanswered why/effect question.
6. **Next:** If unlike features are compared, use an unrelated 2011/2017 hall-roof table under one shared heading. If “paved means safe for everyone” appears, separate supplied material from a needed actual suitability check.

**Routes:** (a) **Window overlay:** compare two original model frames using a movable window over the path; no tracing provider photos. (b) **Table builder:** place phrase tokens in a two-date/same-heading table and read across rows. (c) **Caption challenge:** dictate two captions that a reader can match to the right O14 frame; test privately against the source.

**Observation:** Same-criterion source comparison; absence from a selected record remains unknown. A-first can be selected after date/order/compare teaching, separately from these O records.

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