Copywork & Writen Narration

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  • April 23, 2009 at 2:30 pm
    Misty
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    I have a question that I just didn’t know.

    Can their copywork be their writen narration?

    Can their writen narration be from anything including history & science?

    How much writen narration do you have then do and what age is a good one to start?

    Like I have a 10 going on 11 yr old who orally narrates EXCELLENT & I’m wondering if this is then the time to have him step away after we read and let him do his writen narration.

    Thanks for your suggestions

    April 23, 2009 at 3:21 pm
    csmamma
    Participant

    Hi Misty,

    I know that when my oldest ds was that age, what helped was to “ease” him into written narration. So what I did at first was write down his oral narration for him and then have him rewrite it for his copywork that day. After doing that for a couple of months, then he moved into doing his own written narrations. I think it was much more gentle for him that way – although you know your own ds best.

    You might want to start out with him giving a written narration on a book that he really enjoys. For instance Michelle (bookworm) mentioned that her son loved to give written narrations out of Fabre’s “Story book of science”. I tried this with my ds and he, too, took off with it. However, if you’re son loves a literature or history book, you might want to start there. We go back and forth between literature, history and science written narrations.

    HTH

    Blessings,

    Heather

    April 24, 2009 at 2:02 pm
    Misty
    Participant

    Heather.. thanks for that little piece about me writing it out and then him copying it. That truely seems like a great way to ease my son into this for he dislikes writing and all this “other” writing, except his copywork is in my opinion icky.

    I think we’ll start this next year and start with that idea.

    And basicly what I’m hearing is his copywork can really be narration from anywhere as long as is done correctly?!

    Misty

    April 24, 2009 at 4:13 pm
    csmamma
    Participant

    Yep, narration can be from anywhere that you choose. However, I’m sure that everyones view of a “correct” written narration might be different. For example, when my son first starting doing written narrations, I didn’t worry about grammar and spelling. It was enough that he just got his narration on paper and I was happy with that. I think that if I would have started correcting all the grammatical and spelling errors at first, it would have discouraged him.

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