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how much to correct oral and written narrations
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How much do you correct an oral or written narration for a 4th grader? She may have 3 or 4 facts wrong in an oral narration of, say, history. Do you correct all of those errors?
And she has just started written narration. Am I doing the right thing in initially only correcting one aspect of it (missing/incorrect words is what I’ve been doing so far…she had about six on her first written narration which was 2/3 of a wide-ruled notebook page in length)? How long do you focus on one aspect before adding in another aspect to correct?
If she is consistently getting facts wrong in her oral narrations, I would probably scale back on the length of the reading. Once she shows consistency in paying full attention at the shorter length, you can start adding to the length little by little. We don’t want to reinforce a habit of inaccuracy.
If words are missing in the written narration, it sounds like she may be hurrying through rather than paying full attention and doing a thorough job. Shorter passages may help with that aspect in writing too.
As far as how long to focus on an aspect, I’d recommend you continue to keep track of how many times an infraction occurs in subsequent narrations. (And by the way, make sure she knows which aspect you’re tracking, so she can work on improving in that area too.) Don’t wait for perfection before moving on, however. When you see consistent decline in the number of infractions—or consistent improvement in that aspect, if you prefer to think of it that way—add the next aspect and hold her accountable for both.
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