The reader
This page is for the student in the first weeks of a cycle, and for the adult who keeps interrupting the silence. Later weeks belong to explanation cards and transfer. This week belongs to the stop.
What noticing looks like on paper
A limitation log. Date. The generated sentence. The word you cannot define without a slogan. The thing the sentence cannot know. Eight entries beat one essay. If you have no entries, you have not been looking; you have been collecting.
The slide
Fluent emptiness has tells: adjectives with no unit, citations with no page, “studies show” with no study, a definition that is only a synonym. Circle those. Circling is the work. Explaining comes after you have something to explain.
Adults: do not fill the pause
When a student stops, the helpful instinct is to reopen the tool or to supply a better sentence. That instinct trains dependence. Ask instead: which word is decorative? Then wait. The wait is instructional.
When noticing is finished enough to move on
When the student can, without looking, name one limit of the last generated paragraph and one term they still cannot define. That is the gate to the explanation-before-tools page. There is no badge for the gate.
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