An entire week of comprehensible input can grow organically from just three words. When the week is organized in this way, if the “plant” that is the week’s instruction starts with and is limited to just those three structures on Monday, then the students are able to experience a more streamlined and focused period of instruction over the remaining four days of the instructional week – the instruction has a more simple quality. This assures their success. What does this organic instruction look like on Monday?
Monday – PQA of just the three structures. This is the planting of the seed of the plant that will emerge during the week of instruction. When PQA of three structures is all that is done on Monday, the root of the plant becomes strong and grows deeply into the ground.
By focusing only on the three structures on Monday, the instructor is able to personalize and get lots of repetitions on them. When this kind of focused PQA is done, the seed sprouts and the root goes narrow and deep. The growth of the plant through the week is assured. It is the delivery of knowledge and content and the checking of its comprehension in the form of discussion that characterizes Monday in this suggested schedule for teachers who use comprehensible input.