Basic Stories: Who, What, Where?
Learners read short stories that each include a person, a place, and an action. After each story, they answer simple questions about who the story is about, where it takes place, and what the person is doing.
Learners read short stories that each include a person, a place, and an action. After each story, they answer simple questions about who the story is about, where it takes place, and what the person is doing.
Learners read a short story and identify the key elements — who the story is about, what they are doing, where it happens, and when it happens. This builds understanding of event structure and relational framing across people, actions, places, and time.
In this task, the learner explores richly detailed short stories to practice flexible questioning and inference. Each story includes people, actions, places, times, and descriptive details that allow for a variety of wh- and relational questions. The instructor or program may ask any combination of questions such as: Who is in the story? What is the person doing? Where are they? When is it happening? How are they doing it? Where is (object)? / What’s behind / beside / near (object)? The goal is to build the learner’s ability to generate and respond to flexible inferential and spatial relations across multiple cues—promoting deeper comprehension, contextual reasoning, and language expansion.