I have been thinking that fewer and longer structures might be a good idea. If we were to create a script with:
- couldn’t get up in the morning
- had a long discussion with
instead of:
- got up
- talked with
- went
then the result would be stronger rebar – the structures would be just bigger and easier to hear when, during the story, they occurred. (Don’t forget how we must attempt to say at least one of the structures in each sentence when we do comprehensinle input – otherwise we go quickly out of bounds.)
I’m just thinking out loud here and not trying to say it’s going to work. As with everything, we have to try it out. But to repeat my point – I am thinking that going with fewer and longer structures in the creation of story scripts might have some potential to make things easier for our kids and us to make everything comprehensible.
Related:
- https://benslavic.com/blog/2011/03/11/rebar-1/
- https://benslavic.com/blog/2011/03/12/rebar-2/
- https://benslavic.com/blog/2011/03/16/rebar-3/
- https://benslavic.com/blog/2011/03/20/rebar-4/
- https://benslavic.com/blog/2011/03/22/rebar-5/
- https://benslavic.com/blog/2011/08/02/choosing-structures-is-important/
