Day 49 · Keep a report that says what you mean

Reread an actual own report and make one useful choice about clarity.

  1. Choose one small topic or source detail.
  2. Tell, write, type or direct one useful idea.
  3. Read it back, or ask for readback. Keep, change a bit or finish.

Example to hear: The map and cap are inside the bag.

Pick a way in

Edit one useful detail in your actual report or explain why you keep it; read it back.

Make a pocket-sized information card for an invented pet/vehicle/tool with a child owned title and complete idea; revise if useful.

Receive exact readback and direct keep/change through usual communication. Adult writes exact choice if wanted; private oral version is useful and labelled oral.

Open your empty report page · Pictures and full descriptions

These boxes do not save or send. Keep a copy yourself if wanted. You can tell it without using a box.

Grown-up help

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 makes a final actual report in writing/type/picture+language/direct words or oral form. Optional willing reader; no display/title/full-page requirement. Record who supplied spelling/letter marks.

Observe: Notice an actual keep/change decision tied to intended meaning, grammatical completion and relevant topic word. Separately record an independently attempted taught word or handwriting where offered.

Next teaching: If adult rewrites the whole text, return control to child: read exact original and invite one decision. If child is overwhelmed by conventions, focus on one meaning change now, one taught spelling 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