Michael Peto is currently writing a guide called “50 Things You Can Do to Start Your FVR Program”. It is aimed at beginners. Mike tells me that this project will be finished by late January. We can get the details about how to get it later on when it is ready.
Meanwhile, Tina asked Mike to present at COFLT in Portland at the spring conference. That is good news for everybody as the storytelling information highway between Portland and the SoCal “Inland Empire”, as Dave Ganahl makes sure I say vs. merely “LA”, keeps expanding. I could just feel the comprehensible input atoms in Mike’s room when Tina and I were down there last summer, and now, at COFLT, Mike’s topic will be about teaching attendees at that conference about reading and how to build to that.
Tina asked Mike:
…do you write up the beginners’ stories and then use them for readings?….
His response:
…the class-written readings are an important foundation before FVR…. I have not gotten to the point where one class´s stories start being used in another class for early FVR, and with NT I kind of wonder whether that will happen. The NT stories, mine at least, are much richer than the targeted stories and tend to not always transfer as well. Like with the class that just left my room, we have a rich saga about a flying snail that has escaped from a doomed planet and is now a space traveler. There have been so many stories about this character that my kids from that particular class all easily read about black holes and the “Kingdom of the Monkeys (that covers one part of the doomed planet). This is a group that is in their fourth month of Spanish 1! Reading their own stories until they are ready for the lowest level FVR books seems rock solid….