Plant Story Basket

Take one plant and put its parts in a basket. A coconut works best. Husk, shell, flesh, a piece of frond, a length of rope made from the fibre.

Then tell the same story, in the same order, every day for a term. Toddlers want repetition and this gives them repetition with real objects in it.

By week four the children hand you the next object before you reach for it. That is comprehension, demonstrated without a word of language.

The page has the coconut version fully scripted plus two alternatives using banana and bamboo. It also has the honest note that the story should take under ninety seconds. Our first version ran four minutes and lost them completely. Short, same words, same order, every single time.