A big reason I got attached to Anne Matava’s story scripts is because they fit in so well with my need to be guided along through a story. A more honest way of saying that is that my CI train went off the track all the time when I was just learning the method and scripts kept the bowling ball in the lane, as it were.
But I went into Barb Vallejos’ room today (Barb has been doing TPRS since 1995) and I saw these structures on the board:
got into
signed
could give him
Those structures intrigued me, so I asked about them and Barb explained that she doesn’t really rely on story scripts, preferring to just pull from current events and let the input flow. She explained to me that some of the kids in one of her classes are really into football, and so she just put up those structures. She had, in her mind, a vague script from today’s Denver Post, which was roughly:
…Peyton Manning got into a plane today and flew to Denver and he signed a big contract with John Elway to join the Denver Broncos, a contract which could give him millions of dollars and could give Denver another Super Bowl title….
So, we don’t need story scripts. Current events can furnish us with all the script details we need.
There are so many ways to do comprehensible input!