There never was a Step 1 in TPRS. There was just a story and a reading.
Therefore, I do not advocate getting rid of establishing meaning, gesturing and PQA, just changing where we put it. In my previous article on this topic I wasn’t clear about that – I wasn’t saying to dump it, just relocate it away from a separate “Step 1”.
This deep misconception of Blaine’s original vision of TPRS has been going on for twenty years now and I thank Eric Herman and Chris Stolz for clearing my thinking up on that.
TPRS is such a simple thing that it just had to be made complex by teachers!
Confucious said:
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
It’s time to return to Blaine’s simple original 1990s vision of TPRS, lest we wreck the ship.