SubjectNest · Year 2 HASSResource Weeks 3–4

Day 18 · A claim, an idea or still a question?

Purpose: Revise an unsupported claim while retaining a useful factual-source detail, publisher/date roles and uncertainty. A narrower claim is valuable communication rather than a failed finished product.

Actually taught prerequisite: Source/unknown practice from Days 11/14/16, or model on O12's complete imaginary listing. Do not rely on a child visiting a linked provider site.

Prepare: O12 imaginary pop-up listing, F02 planning region source note, F03 railway route note, claim-question illustration and question-own aid (Your question and helpful detail). Teacher provides complete short windows and source rights; no current operation request from children.

Complete ordinary sources · Worked contexts · Selected original aid · Complete alternative

Genuinely empty own aid · Complete empty-aid words

Full teacher script

  1. Try a careful sentence · about 3 minutes. Read O12, an old fictional listing for an event on 12May of an invented year. A poster added by a pretend writer says ‘It is open now’. Ask which words the listing supports and which need a new current source. Do not equate today's check date with an event happening today.
  1. Model fact/idea/question · about 6 minutes. On an unrelated imaginary cake-box display note, separate ‘the card labels a shelf’ (stated), ‘we could add a return arrow’ (proposal) and ‘is it open today?’ (unknown). These are not levels of worth; an honest question can guide the next source choice. Do not overwrite the child's first claim after feedback.
  1. Choose a source route · about 10 minutes. Read the whole short selected source window together. Child marks a supported detail, changes/removes unsupported words, and retains one related question if helpful. A faithful scribe transcribes the child's revision. No minimum sentence length or all-three-column completion count.
  1. Keep the date roles clear · about 5 minutes. Locate publisher/title, any supplied issue/edition/update date and actual checked 9October 2026 date. F03 has no issue date in its selected body; retain ‘not supplied’. F02's page update19January 2026 is not the date a train operated, a child's test or a place moved.
  1. Share or keep privately · about 3 minutes. Invite a limited sentence such as ‘This source names an area; it does not show room doors’, or a child's own version. Mark any supplied sentence as a model. An adult may read the child's source-linked response back for confirmation without improving the content.
  1. Choose next teaching. If missing detail becomes assumed fact, compare an unrelated complete source window with one deliberate overclaim. If dates swap roles, return to separate titled date cards. If careful revision is sound, extend to what an additional source would need to say before supporting the new question.

Three selectable routes

Pop-up listing editor

Use O12's fully fictional dated listing. Repair a writer's ‘open now’ claim and explain what a current source would need to report. No actual venue/hour check or visit.

Wider-area note editor

Use F02's actual narrow planning-region facts. Keep the region's exact purpose/name; remove a claim that it is every kind of Central Queensland region or a road map. Real source limits stay visible.

Railway note editor

Use F03. Keep the named broad connection; remove unsupported travel time, daily service or Archer Park boarding words. Today's primary-page check does not verify actual current train operation.

What to notice and teach next

S02 source/date recording, S03 limited interpretation, S05 cautious conclusions/proposals and S06 communication. Honest unknown is not evidence of an actual defect or an incorrectly performed experiment.

Components may be offered across suitable sittings with usual communication/neutral reading and faithful scribing identified. Keep the child’s contribution distinct from an adult’s supplied answer. Response length is not quality; these are original formative components, not a complete folio or Year 2 reporting grade.

Modified from Years 1–2 HASS assessment techniques and conditions, October 2023, © State of Queensland (QCAA) 2023, CC BY 4.0. Original SubjectNest task/criterion/next teaching is separate; source exceptions remain.