# A first idea stays empty until offered

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

## Have a go

1. Choose an own picture-choice purpose.
2. Use a genuinely blank sheet or your usual communication for a first idea.
3. Keep only what you offered; pause or finish if wanted.

## Example and reasoning

A maker is invited to devise an own picture-choice game on blank paper. No response is given. They may tell/sign/direct/draw or pause. Ask an open first-purpose question. An empty page is no learner answer and no failure. Next help: make the job smaller on an unrelated adult example after saving any first idea; retain declined/private status honestly.

[Related teacher plan](../teacher/day-175.html)

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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)

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