10 minute narration? :)

I’m so glad you posted this (and congrat’s by the way). I’m looking forward to one of my DD’s getting more then the last sentence I read out.

This was a thought of mine this morning concerning my oldest DD. How long do we let them go while narrating?? This one will go on…and on….and on….AND ON! She doesn’t miss a syllable, voice inflection or PUNCTUATION MARK in anything, whether it is read to her or she has read it.

I know this is a “good” thing, but we narrate every reading. I bounce between DD’s and randomly pick one to do the narrating. When my oldest is picked, we all just hunker down and get ready for the long haul. The other DD even said she better take a potty break before one of these narrations began.

I ask her to highlight and perhaps just pick her favorite parts, but you can see this look of horror cross her face. She just “has” to tell me everything, in order, exactly as she remembers it. Which is surprisingly about all of it.

Is this ok? She’s not ready for written narration yet, too young (we tried), and there’s no getting around a narration. Should I skip any subject, at some point during the day she WILL tell me about. She completely enjoys narrating. I just find myself getting fidgety and wanting to hurry her through.

I hope this doesn’t steal your excitement caroline4kids. My long-winded one is 8 so maybe you’ll have the same “blessing” to deal with :-). But I do love it when I see exactly the things Charlotte said we would, begin to appear in my DD’s. She hasn’t been wrong yet!

Tonni