# One ordinary prop, one safe little story

## Adult prepares actual space and prop

Choose **one broad familiar cloth, blank card or empty tabletop box already approved locally** for these learners. An imagined/drawn prop needs no physical object. Adult checks actual item/condition, edges/size/grip/contact concerns, hygiene, stable surface, seated reach/mobility access, exits, supervision and local policy. Broad is an adjustable access idea, **not a size-based safety guarantee**. No presumed product safety or home supply; no purchase, new costume, paint or propmaking required. No sharp/improvised tool or small loose decorations.

All physical props stay on a stable tabletop/tray. **No prop on/over a head, face or body; no tying, wrapping, climbing, standing/sitting in or on it, putting anything inside, food/real equipment use.** An empty box is only a broad pretend stage object, never a container or seat. Cloth stays flat, never waved at faces or thrown. Card stays on the mat, not used to hit, wear or cut. No real fire, water, food, repair tool, magic trick, animal handling, darkness or surprise sound. Actions are imagined/gestured, not physically testing what the prop can do. A card imagined as a door is not a doorway to step through.

Teacher models a tiny agreed tabletop moment, not a body/costume action. Child can gesture from comfortable seated position, point with gaze/AAC, direct an adult, draw or choose to pass. Adults don't move a child/body/mobility aid or add touch without agreement. Pause for discomfort or requested stop; adapt route/reach/position. No required volume, face expression, role voice, movement distance, touch, costume or audience. One purposeful in-role gesture is enough.

## Three complete same-goal routes

- **Child devises and optionally enacts:** child chooses ordinary prop → imagined object, invented role/place and one role/action clue. If they actually gesture/speak/act in role, record CHILD ENACTED and the actual action/access. If they draw/script only, record ACTUAL DRAWING / SCRIPT; represented enacted moment unmade. No polished performance expected.
- **Child director / no contact:** child points/signs/speaks/AAC for one exact role/action decision. Adult repeats and waits for agreement before moving/playing anything. If adult actually enacts, record CHILD-DEVISED / ADULT-ENACTED and the real contribution. If adult draws the agreed scene, record CHILD-DEVISED / ADULT-DRAWN. Child authorship remains real; adult action is not child enactment.
- **Drawing / no object, print or screen:** child draws/directs an original scene or describes choices using established communication. An actual agreed drawing or script is a child-authored artifact with maker/support explicit. A verbal-only scene proposal is PLAN ONLY; represented prop/action/scene is UNENACTED PLAN. This preserves devising; arrange later accessible play if enactment is sought.

Enlarge/high contrast, cover unused parts, read one exact description chunk and offer quiet time/rest/AAC. Optional approved broad tactile analogue figures/props on a stable mat may represent position or a proposed gesture. It is an **analogue**, not an actual performer or evidence of their unseen motion/voice/feeling. Attribute exact description when direct view unavailable. No invented visual notice. Routes can be changed by any child, without learning-style labels/diagnosis assumptions.

## Source and play status

A physical card/cloth/box is ordinary material; what it represents in the story is the child's imagined meaning. A drawn prop is a representation; a planned gesture isn't an actual event. Our supplied dramatic text and illustrations are actual original computer-authored saved works. Their depicted physical props/enactments are **unmade proposals**, not photographs/live performances. Source words state role/place/action/meaning; a still diagram alone doesn't prove movement or intent. Child can keep or change their own idea, rather than match a fixed arrangement.

Adult can read original short dramatic text neutrally, one moment at a time. If adult actually plays the source scene, date/performer/action/support recorded separately; no such performance supplied here. Saved-text encounter plus actual child response/documented purpose is a narrow FE01 opportunity. No human artist/community purpose, cultural tradition, actual classroom event or universal importance invented.

## Child meaning, audience and private note

Adult private note only: actual date/source/access; child imagined meaning/role/place/action and intended idea; actual drawing/script/child enactment/adult enactment/PLAN ONLY; actual maker/support; first version/revision if made; actual willing viewer/response or NOT OBSERVED. No child statement card required. Source and own meaning are distinct. Intention is not an actual audience's reading; a different reading is allowed. A plan is not recorded as performed drama.

Child may keep own work/play private, pass on being an audience member or invite an actually willing person. Agreement precedes viewing/performance; no filming, photos, audio, name/public label, upload or personal/family story required. Paper sharing is real only if it occurs, but it is not live performance sharing. School privacy/storage/safety rules apply. Imagined dialogue is not a real person's quote. Any actual concern follows local policy, without public retelling/secrecy promise.

[Home bridges](LEARNER-CARDS.md) and [extensions](EXAMPLE-BANK.md) are optional, no objects/device/print/purchase/return evidence needed. The [scene planner](digital/README.md) creates a digital proposal only; no physical prop, acting or audience generated.