These are original model answers for ordinary teaching, not observed learner work or guaranteed reader effects. Offer the stimulus before the solution when useful. W09/W10/W19/W20 are later ordinary practice; they do not rehearse fresh E/F. Each model supplies the tiny text, a reasoned interpretation or actual revision, and its important limit. Different source-supported choices are valid.
W01 — Library shelf / event and inference. “Jules set a returned book on the trolley. Jules read the first page once more before walking away.” Literal: returned book was placed, first page reread. Inference: Jules may want to prolong the encounter, supported by rereading; does not prove sadness or favourite book. A source-grounded response can also decline motive inference. Teaching: separate action from interpretation.
W02 — Kitchen queue / turning point. “The pretend café menu had one empty line. Devi wrote ‘Ask us.’ The first fictional visitor asked for a story instead of a drink.” Beginning: gap; turn: open invitation; consequence: unexpected request. Removing “Ask us” weakens the supplied causal link. The story does not establish a real café service or actual customer happiness. An own alternative turn could be a blank drawing space, with consequences explicitly invented.
W03 — Garden gate / narrator knowledge. “I moved my painted pot to the gate because I wanted to see it from the path. Noor stopped beside it.” Narrator's purpose is explicitly stated; Noor's stopping is literal. Noor likes it is a hypothesis, not known. Comparing to a third-person version that only reports the move loses direct access to motive unless added by the new author.
W04 — Museum sketch / comparison. Text1: “Remi copied every crack in the old imagined vase.” Text2: “I drew a vase with one crack shaped like a river.” Similarity: drawing attention to imperfections; difference: detailed representation versus imaginative transformation. A theme about valuing an irregular mark is plausible with details, not a claim about a real museum's ancient evidence.
W05 — Rain on a roof / imagery. “Rain drummed on the roof” versus “Rain fell on the roof.” Both report imagined rain; “drummed” evokes patterned impacts and may energise the scene, while “fell” is neutral about sound pattern. Not necessarily personification: drums can be an analogy without treating rain as a person. No rain measurements or hearing evidence are supplied.
W06 — Clothes peg / poem pattern. “Hold the sleeve. / Hold the hem. / Leave a little wind for them.” Repeated “Hold” links actions; “hem/them” echoes endings; “leave wind” imaginatively permits movement rather than claiming cloth needs permission. A reader may sense care or playfulness, but no actual reader response. Changing first line to “Grip the sleeve” weakens exact repetition and sharpens the action; neither is always better.
W07 — Workbench scene / form. “LEE: That wheel wobbles. [Lee rests a finger beside the drawing.] MAX: Then our cart can turn corners.” Spoken lines expose different attitudes; bracketed action is a cue. A narrative version can add a chosen narrator's explanation; it must label newly invented thoughts. The drawing/cart is fictional, not a tested vehicle or instruction to touch moving equipment.
W08 — Waiting-room stage / purpose. “ANA: Start now. / BEA: One breath. [The sign stays face down.]” For suspense, the delayed revealing cue can retain uncertainty; for gentle humour a new cue “[The sign says TEA.]” may undercut expectation. The latter is an explicitly invented adaptation, not a hidden source fact. No actual audience laugh is claimed.
W09 — Lost mitten / later comparison practice. Text1: “Tao placed a spare mitten on the empty hook.” Text2: “I drew a mitten above the hook so its owner might look there.” Both respond to an absent owner/item; object placement versus pictured clue is the difference. “Might” leaves success open. Not E's unrecognised help/anonymous ribbon source. Different interpretations supported by the short texts remain possible.
W10 — Puzzle box / later feature practice. “The answer waited under a folded flap” versus “The answer was under a folded flap.” “Waited” personifies the answer and can invite anticipation; the second states location. Neither proves a real answer's agency or real reader suspense. Use after E, not as its rehearsal.
W11 — Community noticeboard story / adaptation. Ordinary source: “The blank square stayed empty until a visitor added a path.” New own story: “The noticeboard's last square held no announcement. Priya drew a door there, and the next fictional visitor added a handle.” Borrows space/open contribution; transforms city to noticeboard, path to collaborative door. Not just renamed people: action and imagined product change. Purpose could be playful surprise. Credit original A idea; no real visitor participation supplied.
W12 — Bedside object poem / adaptation. From D's shelf/harbour idea: “My pencil cup / is a station after dark; / the sharpened travellers / wait for morning's mark.” Cup as station and pencils as travellers form a coherent transport image. Changes retained fragments to tools awaiting use; not an imitation of a named author's style. “Station/travellers/wait” are associated words. Neither perfect rhyme nor actual listening is required.
W13 — Picnic note / time and paragraph. Draft: “I found the folded note. Yesterday I had left the map blank. Today the note showed one new path.” Put “Yesterday...” before discovery for chronological clarity, or keep discovery first then flashback for uncertainty. Both valid if temporal markers make relation clear. “Had left” marks action before the past discovery; do not require this tense in every genre. No real outdoor journey or directions are required.
W14 — Shop-window script / embedded clause. Plain: “The robot waited. It had lost its paper hat.” Combined: “The robot that had lost its paper hat waited beside the window.” Relative clause identifies/elaborates the robot inside the noun group; main proposition remains robot waited. In a script direction “[The robot that has lost its hat waits.]” present tense is coherent for cues. A newly added robot thought belongs to new fiction, not the source. No operating robot supplied.
W15 — Laundry-line story / verbs and adverb groups. “The scarf moved” becomes “The scarf fluttered very gently in short bursts.” “Fluttered” suggests light repeated motion; “very gently” is an adverb group describing manner; “in short bursts” is a prepositional phrase functioning adverbially, specifying pattern. “The scarf lurched across the basket” implies a different stronger movement, not simply a superior synonym. Choose based on fictional scene/purpose; no real weather observation implied.
W16 — Bakery doorway / dialogue and clause punctuation. Draft: “Although the dough was ready Sami waited ‘One more minute’ Sami said.” Edited: “Although the dough was ready, Sami waited. ‘One more minute,’ Sami said.” Dependent-clause comma after ready, full stop closes narration, comma inside quotation before reporting clause. No comma required between subject and verb. This is a fictional story snippet, not baking instructions or a guarantee about food safety. Typographic straight or curly quotes are acceptable consistently.
W17 — Game-room draft / reader-oriented edit. First: “I hid it there and she found it.” Context is insufficient. Revised: “I hid the pretend treasure card under the score sheet. Am found it while checking the game.” Nouns identify object/person/location and action explains discovery. May reduce mystery but improve this piece's intended clarity. This is original model editing, not observed child progress.
W18 — Bus-stop poem / repeated image. First: “A bench keeps a place. / A cloud goes by. / A bench keeps a place.” Edit middle to “A borrowed shadow goes by.” Repeated bench line frames a temporary passing image; borrowed shadow associates fleeting shade with kept place. A learner may retain cloud for broader sky imagery. No universal reader effect, transit advice or required personal memory.
W19 — Sports-field fiction / consequence revision, later only. Ordinary source: “The pretend match had finished. Niko left the chalk circle unclosed.” New story: “By morning, someone had drawn a doorway across the gap. Niko named it the entrance to tomorrow's game.” Changes unfinished boundary into new invitation; “By morning” supplies a later event and doorway transforms its purpose. Draft edit “named” to “offered” can shift private labelling toward invitation if an actual invitation is then expressed in the fiction. No real school marking or player response supplied.
W20 — Parcel-paper poem / ending, later only. First: “The parcel paper creases / around a sleeping square. / I open every corner: / nothing waits in there.” Alternative ending: “a little room for air.” Empty-discovery ending may disappoint/amuse; space-for-air ending can make absence valuable. Personification “sleeping” treats wrapped object as sleeping. Select an ending for own purpose and explain; no actual parcel opening, purchase or audience feeling demanded. These are outside F's star/boat/ribbon/door event.
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