Do you narrate ALL of your read aloud books?

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  • December 4, 2017 at 8:31 am
    Sandi Luciano
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    Hi!  I am just getting started at narration with my kids.  I have three kids, ages 7, 6, and 3.  I bought the ebook about Narration here at SCM and I have been reading through how to do it with my kids.  This year for literature we are reading through the first group of literature books that is recommended from this website… mostly all fairy tales like Pinocchio and such.  We are reading Pinochhio right now.

    I also read that Aesop’s Fables was a good place to start to learn narration.  I was going to just use Aesop’s Fables as our learning tool of our to narrate.  But then I realized maybe in order to do narration correctly, it should be a way of approaching learning as a whole.  Therefore, I should probably ALSO have my kids start to narrate Pinocchio too.  Is that right?

    Is there any place for having the children just simply listen to a book without narrating it?

    Also… if I have my kids narrate both Aesop’s Fables and Pinocchio.  Should I have them narrate both of them everyday ?  And if so, should I separate when I read them, so it is not back to back narration?  Like one in the morning and one in the afternoon?  Or is that requiring too much?

    December 4, 2017 at 8:54 am
    sheraz
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    Seriously, if my children are just learning to narrate Aesop’s Fables, I would not have them narrate a story with long chapters – how frustrating that would be to chop it all up into little beginning narration size bites. I would ask for narrations on our science and history reads first.

    I save literature for a period for my kids to “get lost and enjoy” the story without having to narrate, unless they start a conversation about the story.

    December 4, 2017 at 9:13 am
    Jamie
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    I think you are off to a great start with your reading selections.

    This is just my 2 cents but apply the narrations tips you are learning in the book to Aesop’s Fables (you as the Mommy are learning in this process too) and then simply enjoy your other chapter book selection at another time during the day.  I would keep this one simple by asking “Who remembers what happened last time?”

    December 4, 2017 at 9:44 am
    Sandi Luciano
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    Thanks!  That is helpful.  I actually read more in the SCM ebook about narration and found they have a whole section on length and how often.  So for grades 1-3 she would only do 1 narration a day, maybe two at the most.  And she would vary the book each day, so not requiring a daily narration of the same book every day.  It did say that you do not have to have them do narrations for everybook.

    I guess one suggestion is to read a paragraph at a time and have them narrate a paragraph at a time.  So I guess I could do that with the Pinocchio book.  But I do see how that would sorta chop it all up.  Although their attention span is low right now and they seem to interrupt me a lot when reading Pinocchio.  And the narration ebook also had suggestions on how to limit and discourage interruptions.

    Thanks for sharing!  Still trying to get a handle and understanding on this narration thing and it helps to get feedback.

     

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