Here’s another question from a group member:
How early in the first level class do the stories begin? I am wondering how to begin ASKING stories with their limited vocabulary.
My response is that it’s a great question. Depends on you. I do level one stories fairly early bc stories bring the best whack factor into the classroom. But your point about the limited vocabulary is huge. So what I do first is just extend the PQA (that’s described in detail in PQA in Wink!) and make little extended PQA scenes that hang on the basic vocabulary you just established before the extended scene. We need a book of really really simple scripts, is the answer to that one. But, even in level one last year I was able to get the more complex (in terms of vocabulary) Anne Matava scripts cranked up all right by October.