Day 43 · A picture can add information

Choose one short sitting; about 25–30 minutes is an author planning estimate, not a required dose or tested timing. Keep/pause/finish and a return later are valid. No purchase, outing, upload, account, private disclosure, recording, forced speech/eye-contact/movement or audience. Use established communication, sign/AAC, suitable enlarged print, keyboard or exact child-directed scribing as appropriate. Ask before touching/moving belongings; do not require handling real objects. Read rich text aloud or provide agreed exact text access: it is not automatic independent reading. No-print listening/composition alternatives keep meaning useful, but do not prove decoding. Adults record their own reading, phoneme cues, grapheme supply, spelling and physical marking separately. An actual oral report is oral; a picture+language text has actual stated components; an unwritten proposal is a plan. A scribe can preserve child composition while adult spelling/handwriting remains adult. Only observe handwriting when the child actually forms letters. Only record real interaction when a willing other person actually participates. Do not infer a listener reply from a paper figure, adult model or intended reader.

Today: Child creates a diagram or directs one, adds a useful label or sentence, then explains one contribution. An oral explanation without a picture is an explanation, not a completed visual text.

Observe: Observe whether the child distinguishes word information and described/drawn position. Reading print and interpreting an adult description have different access records.

Next teaching: If all channels are called the same, show one isolated label and one complete sentence and ask what extra it says. If the child prefers no drawing, compare two spoken descriptions while keeping visual-text opportunity open later.

Each ordinary day: select one locally eligible cumulative passage and two or three locally eligible words; no automatic new grapheme in this bank. Say a chosen word normally, then model its full ordered phonemes using the reviewed map. Digraph sh/ch/optional final ck represents one phoneme; s+t and n+d stay separate sounds. Let child blend the print, reread a phrase naturally, then give the meaning. If the first reading attempt is needed, capture it before modelling. For writing, say the separate chosen dictation word normally; learner segments, selects graphemes and writes/types/arranges them if suitable. Teacher can model and invite another attempt after capture; mark supplied graphemes separately. Handwriting: offer one locally taught unjoined letter from the word, modelling that school's letter formation and inviting an actual comfortable attempt; exact formation needs local judgement and is not provided by a system font. Familiar a/is require explicit actual teaching as described in the lexicon. Meaning context confirms reading; do not replace grapheme blending by picture guessing. Oral sound manipulation is separate from printed new-code teaching. If no passage fits, keep rich listening/composition and explicitly teach one earlier taught correspondence with a locally matched word; not-yet-offered print is not failed reading. Long vowels, two-syllable patterns, wider high-frequency words and morphemes need separate actual school teaching; this bank does not claim to complete them.

Complete teacher plan · Print eligibility and full maps · Separate teacher checks and keys