Contexts / C06 · Text version | Foundation Design Tech · T4 W35–36

An ordinary teaching idea. The example below is made up; your own work can stay private.

Have a go

Tell a proposed fixed sequence for an invented story.
Tell a proposed routine where the chooser selects the next cue.
Keep what differs in the player action.

Example and reasoning

One invented story game has a proposed fixed cue sequence; another lets the player choose a next cue. No story, player response or use has occurred. Ask what would be different for the chooser. Explain these are different instruction mechanisms, not known easier/harder versions. Next help: act out proposed steps using unrelated adult cues only after the child's own alternatives.

Related teacher plan

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. [Full notices](../SOURCE-NOTICE.html)