A quiet pattern choice
An ordinary teaching idea. The example below is made up; your own work can stay private.
Have a go
- Choose your own drawn marks or described cues.
- Show how a player could choose which comes next without sound.
- Keep the instruction that explains your choice.
Example and reasoning
A maker wants to choose which of their own drawn marks comes next, privately and without sound. No mark order, winner or actual use is given. Invite an own cue, arrangement or spoken plan. A proposed order is not a tested rule or universal mathematics pattern. Next help: ask what would make the next choice understandable, without supplying the child's chosen marks.
Grown-up help
Offer speech, sign, AAC, pointing, drawing, faithful dictation, usual home-language support when competent, private work, pause, rest or finish. Ask one part at a time and keep its meaning. No partner, winner, score, time limit or fixed response length is required. Use only locally suitable broad whole paper/card, a checked marking tool and a stable comfortable table. A helper may act exactly as directed; keep the child's idea and the actual operator's action separate. Record an actual event only when it happened. A missing record can mean unknown; it does not establish that no action happened. A supplied story remains fiction.
Show the worked reasoning after an offered own idea where useful. This context is not a held first/later source.