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How do you encourage your kids to not narrate back in thier OWN words?
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Do any of your kids struggle with narrating back a passge almost verbatim? I am trying to encourage my dd to tell the passage back in her own words but we still struggle with this.
You might print these bookmarks with narration prompts to have handy. You could use one of these to encourage her to focus on a particular aspect of the story rather than just reciting back what has been read.
I’ve found that if I ask what characters my 9yo has met, she’ll start off telling me about them. And it ends up being in her own words, because it’s not the storyline per se. So, she’s at ch.4 of Tom Sawyer. I asked who has she met. She listed the characters. Next time I will ask her (we got interrupted!) to describe those characters or tell me about them. I might ask if she could pick one of them to be her friend who would it be.
Then, in the next couple days, I’ll ask what’s going on in the story, or what has happened so far. Has anything exciting happened?
I guess this approach won’t work for something like a history spine, but it might.
I sometimes ask “What did you think about our story today?” ghen encourage elaboration on that if needed. This works well for our Bible stories because dd has strong opinions on the behavior of the Israelites right now! lol
I tell mine that I have never heard the story, so can they tell me all they know. If I get just the barest of story line, then I will ask crazy questions that I know are wrong. Say if they tell me it is a girl character, I’ll ask if it is the girl with red hair and pig tail braids like pippi and then they say oh no this si so and so and she has blah blah blah. Or I say is this place on an island when I know it is in the woods etc… Not sure if this is CM or not, but works for us.
I think this is something that happens naturally over time, especially once written narrations begin. My children have been narrating well for several years, and they will still say some things verbatim from the story. That just tells me they were really paying attention and listening, so it’s not necessarily a bad thing, ya know?
The fact that you’re getting narrations at all is no small victory.
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