Don’t go too wide. It is common to think that our kids, because they perform so well, can do things with sounds and words in the form of reading that they haven’t seen. But they can’t. They can only understand and read what they have heard and worked on before, plus a little extra in context as per the way Laurie and Michele remind us to set up embedded readings (with limited new vocabulary), but that’s all.
An example would be in vPQA, where you have gone to great pains in setting up your deck (hopefully Haiku Deck so we can share decks next year with not fear of copyright infringement) including these main check points:
Presentation Slides
Image and Sentence Caption Slides
Question Slides with Response Options
But then in the fourth check point:
the Debate
You get so carried away with the topic that you write too much, give too much background information to the kids, expecting them to debate on a wider topic than they are capable of, so that they can’t handle how wide it is and the whole thing collapses.
Related: https://benslavic.com/blog/vpqa-question/