Edit the little marks that change meaning · a small home offer

Read the complete source: C13 · One owner and missing letters · C14 · Several regular plural owners

Edit the little marks that change meaning · a small home offer

What does the sentence mean? Put the mark where it helps show that meaning.

Before you begin

The complete matched C source travels with this offer; an adult can read it. It is ordinary taught material, not an unseen case.

First adult words

1. Try ‘Sam’s pouch’ and ‘don’t’ on scrap paper, using the supplied fictional meanings. Names and family property do not need to be shared.

2. Read the matched fictional source together. Ask which reader or character the child wants to help. Use the child direction: ‘What does the sentence mean? Put the mark where it helps show that meaning.’

3. Offer scrap paper, objects, pointing, speech/sign or exact dictation. Stop after one useful small piece; no class workbook or internet is required.

Later adult words

1. Invite the child to show one part and explain it using the source. If useful, ask the supplied reader question or reread the relevant source detail.

2. Notice whether the apostrophe’s position fits the supplied meaning and whether the child distinguishes contraction from possession. A copied final model is not an unseen first response.

3. If you supply a word, answer, model or pen work, say so in a note. Keep the piece private unless you and the child choose a permitted reader. This offer is not an independent assessment by itself.

Optional extra

Return to the second matched ordinary source C14 for the same day's purpose, introducing its full source first. Do not quietly switch to a different day or held case.

Time

5–15 minutes suggested, unpiloted; stop, shorten or resume.