Keep apart from first-response sources. These examples support alternatives; they do not supply a sole moral, genre or reader feeling.
Capture protocol
Fresh E on Day25 and F on Day30 begin before that day's teaching or practice routes. Offer the complete exact source through independent reading, screen reader, literal read-aloud, larger text or sign/AAC as appropriate. Explain response procedure without interpreting a source. Do not demonstrate the same answer first. Record exact first words/marks, selected source detail, access, content hints and unfinished components. Later sitting is valid. Learners may point to exact lines and dictate original words to an adult; adult transcription is a physical support, not independent spelling/handwriting or adult-authored composition. No compulsory speed, word length, oral fluency or public audience. Do not remove needed access to obtain a nominally independent result.
Use four descriptive evidence labels per component: supported here, partly supported here, needs a specific next move, not elicited. Add help given alongside each; a supported response after a content hint is prompted evidence, not an unprompted first response. Do not turn these labels into QCAA A–E grades, ability labels or whole-standard attainment.
Fresh E — independently worked alternatives
- Literal: E1 a narrator clears a fallen flag so a model train moves, then leaves a ribbon unnamed; E2 Eren turns the label upright and the display's maker later says nobody turned the label, a belief contradicted by E2.2. E1.2/3/4 and E2.1/2/3 supply exact details. The texts do not establish that ribbon was a prize or that Eren wanted a prize. The ribbon's purpose remains unspecified.
- Similarity: both include an act that other people do not publicly recognise in the supplied account. Difference: E1 is told by the actor using “I” and explicitly describes choosing no name; E2 uses third person, reports a mistaken character belief and explicitly withholds the motive for silence. Alternatively compare action consequences (moving train versus upright label), timing or objects, tied to text.
- Inference: E1's narrator may prefer anonymity in this instance, supported by E1.6; E2 Eren may choose not to correct the maker, supported by E2.4, but E2.6 prevents claiming to know why. Shyness, kindness, embarrassment, indifference and a wish to avoid interruption are hypotheses, not established identities. A learner may say there is insufficient support for a motive.
- Effect: E1's short “Nobody asked” after the successful action can shift attention from result to recognition; E2.3 gives the reader knowledge the maker lacks. This may create irony or uncertainty. Different plausible effects are accepted when linked to source. No technique vocabulary quota.
E component rubric and same-day decisions
| Component | Supported here | Partly / specific mismatch | Immediate teaching, then unused check |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literal source use | Accurate action/detail from each with identifiable line or faithful paraphrase | One accurate source; or invented prize, motive or physical outcome | Return to action-versus-belief lines with an ordinary new practice mini-text. R1 later tests two different texts. |
| Similarity and difference | Both meaningful, connected to two texts; no single mandatory theme | Similar topic but no development difference, or one unsupported comparison | Pair two ordinary story moments and ask what changes in whose knowledge or choice. Then R1. |
| Narrator/inference | Distinguishes actor/narrator/character knowledge and acknowledges a genuine unknown | First person treated as author; silence treated as proven permanent trait | Model “the text says / I infer / still open” on an ordinary model. Then R2. |
| Feature and possible effect | Exact language/structure choice with defensible possible reader effect | Names a feature without meaning link or invents unanimous reader feelings | Keep event fixed and compare two original sentences. Then R3. |
Record not elicited if access, time or source delivery prevented the component. Select one next move, not all rechecks for everyone.
Fresh F — teacher source precision
A paper star is a fictional sign, not an astronomical object. Boat “waits” personifies a drawing; “rain” can be imagined weather/metaphor rather than a measured event. Paired end rhymes door/more, wall/fall, back/track, again/rain are intended echoes; pronunciation of again varies, so the last pair is not compulsory universal rhyme. Do not penalise a learner for identifying that variation. The poem does not say who drew the boat, that the narrator was pleased or that the door certainly opens tomorrow. “May” is conditional.
Fresh F — independently worked alternatives
These are alternatives, not a required story.
Model story for gentle surprise, borrowing the drawing-on-a-sign event: “When I turned the café sign over, the painted boat had a passenger: a tiny pencil dot. I added a hat. By morning, someone had drawn a second hat beside it.” This is a new invented adaptation, not what F reports. It changes the event into a continuing shared drawing and uses the tiny dot as a reveal. A purposeful edit could change “had a passenger” to “carried a passenger” to sustain the boat metaphor, keeping the rest fixed.
Model scene for suspense, borrowing the conditional tomorrow and door: “ARI: Will it open? [The boat sign swings.] JO: I only know it is still here. [A hand pauses beside the handle.]” A revision changing the final cue to “[The hand withdraws.]” withholds the opening and may extend uncertainty. No actual performance or frightened audience is supplied.
Model poem for wonder, borrowing a pictured boat waiting: “A painted boat / has never left the door. / Yet someone adds a sail; / its sea is more and more.” A revision replacing “adds” with “unfurls” sustains the sailing metaphor. It does not inherently personify making. These are separate acceptable examples; accepting a different source-linked adaptation does not require adopting any model genre, rhyme, length or emotional effect.
F component rubric and teaching decisions
| Component | Supported here | Concrete next move if partial/mismatch |
|---|---|---|
| Purpose and reader | Learner identifies a purpose/reader and at least one choice serves it | Ask who could read this and what experience learner wants; compare ordinary alternatives, then R4. |
| Adaptation and creation | Actual own literary component borrows an identifiable source element and changes it meaningfully | If retelling only, choose one character/setting/event change and follow one consequence. If plan only, invite a first actual sentence/line/scene unit. Recheck R4 after teaching. |
| Language and structure | An actual literary device/precise verb/repetition/structure choice has a plausible purpose link | If only a label or random decoration, compare two ordinary word choices for a selected effect. Then R3 or R4. |
| Editing | First and revised versions show a meaningful change with a reason | If copied cleanly with no revision, keep first version visible and change one meaning, order or expression. Then R4. |
| Support and remaining evidence | Composition decisions attributed; spelling/transcription/delivery recorded separately | Re-offer a suitable mode; do not infer decoding, independent spelling or presentation from a dictated draft. |
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