# Help find the start

1. Make a little guide for yourself or a willing person.
2. Show where to begin and what to do first. Use pictures, words, signs or AAC.
3. Keep their exact reply if they give one. Your guide can stay private.

## Pick a way

- **Draw a start guide.** Draw a guide showing your start and first action. It can stay private.
- **Ask for one reply.** Give a willing person your exact instructions. Keep their reply if they give one.
- **Ask a local feature question.** Ask a grown-up to check one feature question, or keep it unanswered.

You can tell, sign, point, draw, use AAC or direct a helper. Keep it private, pause, rest or finish.

[Your blank aid or whole example](../aids/guide-own-alternative.html) · [Home idea](../home/H09.html)

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<summary>Grown-up help</summary>

A helper can read one invitation at a time and record your exact offered words or directions. You can point, sign, use AAC, draw, tell, keep it private, rest or stop. Suitable broad whole paper is enough; no small pieces, cutting, glue or partner is required. The grown-up chooses suitable materials and follows local guidance. If someone else marks or moves a part, keep who did it separate. A picture or plan does not say that a game was played.

Modified from [Prep alignment](https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/downloads/aciqv9/technologies/curriculum/ac9_tech_design_prep_as_cd_alignment.pdf), [Prep standard elaborations](https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/downloads/aciqv9/technologies/assessment/ac9_tech_design_se_prep.pdf) and [Prep techniques and conditions](https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/downloads/aciqv9/technologies/assessment/ac9_tech_design_technique_cond_prep.pdf), © State of Queensland ([QCAA](https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/copyright)) 2023, [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) with item exceptions. Guidance summaries are adapted; proposed SubjectNest stories, choices, tasks, criteria and teaching moves are original. No endorsement.

[Teacher preparation](../teacher/PREPARE.html) · [Full notices](../SOURCE-NOTICE.html)

[Complete teacher plan](../teacher/day-179.html)

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