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One Verb Stories (OVS) were a game changer for me and my program. Instead of trying to follow a traditional TPRS story script, I simply follow the same principles used for Card Talk. I begin with a high frequency verb and build a sentence around that verb through story-asking, specifically asking "with whom?" and "where?" For example, maybe I want to create a story with the verb "leaves." Together with my class we find out that Jimmy leaves the Death Star with Baby Yoda. I first build the story and establish the details, then I have the actors act it out. It serves as a much simpler and lower anxiety way to do story-asking. Watch the video below for an explanation of One Verb Stories and an example we created in the adult class.
Below is the embedded reading created from the OVS in the video:
One Verb Stories are also an amazing way to create stories about your characters created with One Word Images. Watch how I take a character we already created in class and then create a OVS about him using the verb "knows" here.
OVS also lend themselves to a high frequency word scope and sequence in a four year CI program. Below is rough draft of how we organize the four year Spanish program at my current high school:
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