# A-first · Two questions for the library · educator account, criteria and next teaching

**Eligibility:** After Day 31 with the earlier object/reference vocabulary revisited. The exact account is held; selecting records and unknown-plan reasoning are familiar. **Complete source:** Fictional library archive L has four cards. L1: named Moon, fixed gate-frame G, morning on archive date 6, beside the left post, thin lit appearance. L2: same named Moon and G, later on date 6, above the right post, thin lit appearance. L3: date 19, same named Moon, near-full lit appearance; position/reference not supplied. L4: date 20, a written question only; observation explicitly not attempted. Visitor Noor asks where the Moon was against G on date 6. Visitor Sam asks how its lit appearance differed between dates 6 and 19. No cards are photographs or current local forecasts.

## Exact prompts and meaning

1. **Which cards help Noor? Tell or show why.** Expected: L1/L2, same object/frame/date with differing morning/later positions; L3 lacks position/reference and a different date, L4 no finding. Criterion: connects the actual question to the comparable supplied fields, not just a card count. Next: give unrelated bus-stop frame cards at two named times; highlight question/reference before comparing.
2. **Which cards help Sam? What changed in their notes?** Expected: L1 or L2 and L3 supply thin versus near-full lit appearance across dates 6/19; position is a separate question. Criterion: names that appearance comparison without an exact cycle or location claim. Next: use fictional appearance notes on archive dates 3/12; compare only their described lit parts, not the printed position.
3. **What does L4 tell us? What does it not tell us?** Expected: question written, observation not attempted; no Moon position/appearance result, not a measured zero. Criterion: keeps the explicit planned/unmade action separate from a result. Next: a pretend gardener's written watering plan with no watering; distinguish the plan from a completed event, then return to the sky question.
4. **Make a short useful answer for one visitor. Keep its source.** Expected: selected visitor/question, correct supported comparison, library fiction label and a limit/open detail; ordinary language accepted. Criterion: communicates useful bounded meaning, rather than reciting a scientific word. Next: scribe one supplied sentence and let the child correct its missing question/source for a new willing reader.

## Capture and support

Keep the first response before help. Read neutrally or scribe exactly; note actual communication, operator, prompt and exposure. Source interpretation does not establish actual sky conduct. Record one descriptive state and reason: meaning evidenced here; meaning after named help; unclear here; unobserved on this route. No total or official grade conversion.

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