# Optional five-minute practice and no-purchase home ideas

For each day, choose **one** extra if there is time; the two columns are alternatives. Home is optional and can be done with scrap paper, a pencil or a spoken response. No paid account, device, journey, purchase, family interview, private access detail or parent marking is required. The mini-contexts below are invented. Checks on Days 15/20 use new lesson cases: run extras **after collecting** those responses. Use the [teacher quick key](TEACHER-KEY.md#optional-practice-quick-key) if teaching from these mini-cards.

| Day | Extra A · five minutes | Extra B · five minutes | No-purchase home/low-material route |
| ---: | --- | --- | --- |
| 11 | **Game-board border:** `3 + 2n + 3 = 6 + 2n` centimetres in a paper model. Explain what combining the edges changes and does not change. | **Bookcase sketch:** two 4 cm margins and `n` 10 cm paper labels give `8 + 10n`. Write the uncombined expression and name the assumed unit. | Invent two border lengths and one repeating paper width; explain equivalent wordings for a fictional sketch. No actual furnishing measured. |
| 12 | **Sports poster model:** “Every team wins with our practice card!” versus a small line “four of six practice attempts improved.” Mark promise and source limit; no real team data. | Rewrite Caption 1 for a fictional visitor who has only ten seconds, keeping the 96 cm paper condition. | Read any invented sign you write yourself; ask what it invites and what it explains. No public sign or online search needed. |
| 13 | Write one sentence using Text A's `n=2` row and an embedded *which* clause that genuinely adds the margin condition. | Test an invented claim: “The paper strip will work on a real wall.” What source is missing? Add a separate limit sentence. | Draft claim → number → limit for a paper-box design; check which words come from the given model and which are predictions. |
| 14 | In Text C, underline the sentence where Theo first tests the plan from an unfamiliar reader's position. Explain why that event matters more than another equation. | Compare “a frame” as literal edge and “somewhere to arrive” as layered image. Give two defensible readings with words from the vignette. | Draw a fictional paper page margin and write a two-sentence scene in which one character changes their view. No personal experience needed. |
| 15 | **After the check**, return to Text B: replace “perfectly” with a phrase that keeps the paper model result and makes its limit audible. | Choose an earlier paragraph and add a source quotation you can actually find. Do not use today's held-out source. | Revisit a prior invented caption from this pack, marking SOURCE and STILL UNKNOWN; no new source search. |
| 16 | **Fictional game session:** instructions use 5 minutes and each paper round takes 10; the total model slot is 45. Write a bounded sentence for `5 + 10r ≤ 45`; do not promise every player a round. | In Text D, replace “Everyone gets a turn!” with a short headline that still invites a reader and is truthful under the model. | Draw a paper clock face or list a made-up timetable; write “at most” correctly for a fixed slot without planning a real event. |
| 17 | Repair “Completion of the display was announced.” Can the sentence tell who built it, who announced it, or whether the display is actually ready? | Compare Kit's reading with the coordinator's plan. Quote one exact phrase from each and keep their evidential reach separate. | Invent a noun such as *selection* or *approval* in a fictional note; ask who acts and whether your source actually names them. |
| 18 | Write two original lines in which a page is called a gate. Change one image so the tone shifts, then name the word doing the work. | Try Text F's last two lines with a full stop instead of a colon; explain whether the second line still defines “not nothing” as clearly. | Make a two-line paper poem with one deliberate dash or semicolon. Read privately or silently and alter one mark for effect. |
| 19 | **Fictional art-table notice:** “Three slots fit, so everyone will create.” Give a 20-second or written fair challenge that retains the slot count. | A partner's response omits the source. Ask one respectful question that could draw out evidence, then suggest where the source line should move. | Rehearse a quiet reply to an invented claim in this pack: acknowledge, evidence, limit, question. No sending or filming. |
| 20 | **After the check**, revisit Text D and explain why its 50-minute model does not include question time. | Look at Text F's semicolon and ask what two thoughts it holds together; revise one original line from Day 18. | Choose one older learner card and write an exact question for its author. Do not ask a family member to score the held-out check. |

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