Dictation in high school?

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  • February 1, 2013 at 6:47 am
    anniepeter
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    Do you continue to do dictation through high school?  I’m debating…son has been doing it for 2-3 years but not particularly regularly until this year.  He’s not enjoying it (that alone isn’t a reason to quit obviously, but it is a reason for me to evaluate whether it is necessary and best suited to meet the current needs).  He’s trying to have a good attitude, but has a hard time seeing the value in it.  I totally understand the value in it…but at this point, I think he’s pretty well got it (focused attention, punctuation, great original compositions) except for the spelling – we have a LONG way to go there.  Now, I know that’s also a major reason to use dictation…but if that is the only reason, maybe it would be more efficient just to do a word list taken from his own writing or something.  That’s his feeling…and I guess I don’t have a good counter for it.  Am I missing something?  What do you think?  (We’re nearing the end of Spelling Wisdom Book 1 – but we do skip the ones that are not very appealing to a 17yo boy:-)

    February 1, 2013 at 10:07 pm
    TailorMade
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    I’m wondering…will he pursue anything after home schooling that requires note taking skills? If so, I should think that copywork, studied dictation, and finally unrehearsed dictation are excellent prerequisites. If he plans to taking college courses, it would be to his advantage to continue, (at least off and on) in order to build this area into a fairly easy ability. It will build his memory skills in spelling, but also in information retrieval for papers and tests.

    May e I’m stretching this? Does it make sense? It’s always harder to do things we don’t want to do if there seems to be no reason. Maybe this could be a reason to continue? It’s what I’m going to tell my 13yos as he continues to need improvement in spelling and dictation skills.

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    Becca<><

    February 1, 2013 at 10:21 pm
    anniepeter
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    He is considering college – so, yes, we want to be prepared for that.  We are doing written narrations of some sort every day now too.  I planned (so far still plan 🙂 dictation 2 times per week with spelling practice every day on a list of words we collect from dictations and words needed in other writing (yesterday it was a list of building terms – insulation and the like).  We started out with daily dictation, but I quickly figured out that wasn’t realistic.  We can’t learn to spell so many words so fast!

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