# N19 · Garden lists at different stages

**A small start:** Name one list’s present stage. Suggest a useful next step.

## Complete supplied source

Original fiction. Proposal note names a seed-first garden list that has not been made. Making note names a pot-first garden list that has been made on paper but never tried. Trial note says a willing helper tried finding a plant on a third list; no reply was entered. The three notes describe different lists and no real gardening.

## Choose your way

Tell it, sign, use AAC, point to the words, make broad marks or direct a helper. Two reachable paper spaces are enough if wanted. Start with one clue, keep it private, rest, pass or stop. A helper can read dates or source names neutrally and write the child’s exact chosen words; record any supplied idea separately. These are choices, not fixed learning styles or diagnostic labels.

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**Teacher invitation:** Use the actual labels rather than a forced “all done” sequence. Let the child choose one list, describe its status, and propose one source-connected step. The adult records only acts that actually occur.

**One worked possibility, after an own attempt or if wanted:** The seed-first list is proposed/unmade; the pot-first list is made/untried. The third list has a find attempt with outcome unknown. Making the seed list or inviting a willing find attempt on the pot list is a sensible future proposal, not a proved improvement.

**What stays unknown:** No third-list outcome and no tested benefit for the first two are supplied.

**Next teaching:** If a wanted real paper list is later made, record its actual chosen heading and date. A willing reader’s actual reply, if any, stays separate; “not tried” is an honest complete note.

**Keep a useful trace if needed:** chosen source/question, exact child meaning, actual helper reading/writing/moving/operation, content help and one useful next step. Missing or unoffered evidence is not a failure; a fictional action is not the child’s performance. There is no length, handwriting, speed or public-sharing requirement.

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