Name: CHEC Rocky Mountain Homeschool Conference
Start: 2025-06-12T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-06-14T23:59:59-05:00
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This topic has 6 replies, 5 voices, and was last updated 11 years, 9 months ago by HollyS.

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August 20, 2013 at 4:47 pm
Alicia Hart
Participant
How often per day do you have your kids in years 1-3 narrate? I am assuming daily but how many times per day?
August 20, 2013 at 4:55 pm
missceegee
Participant
Mine narrate every reading except our bedtime read aloud. So that’s usually 2-3 per day, but sometimes it takes a few narrations to get through a story.
August 20, 2013 at 7:11 pm
jmac17
Participant
We also narrate every reading except bedtime. My year 1 son has 1-2 each day and my year 3 daughter has 2-3 each day. Some of those are together, so they share the narrating task. Of course, the year 3 readings are also longer than year 1. We also do some narrating when appropriate for our devotional materials, but those are pretty short, more like a discussion together than a formal narration.
Joanne
August 20, 2013 at 7:26 pm
Alicia Hart
Participant
I was having my 6 year old and my 8 year old both narrate (at separate times) Aesop’s fables once per day and that was it.
Any thoughts on what I should bump them up to for this next year? Just So Stories? They are a bit longer.
August 20, 2013 at 7:41 pm
missceegee
Participant
Yes, that would work, but DON’T read the entire story or even 1/2 of the story and expect a narration. Read a small portion of a couple of sentences to a paragraph, narrate, read some more, narrate again. For young kids in years 1-3, lessons incl. narrations should be no more than 15-20 minutes total. Some lessons will be even shorter. This is fine.
August 20, 2013 at 7:48 pm
Claire
Participant
We vary daily, but it usually includes 1 or 2 oral narrations, 1 written, 1 in another form. I don’t have them narrate orally everything they read every day. I’ve never done that …. or maybe I did when they were younger? My kids tend to share what they’ve just read anyway now – whether I want them to or not!
August 20, 2013 at 8:43 pm
HollyS
Participant
I aim for 1-2 narrations per day (per child), but I’m sure we don’t get these in every single day. This year they’re doing 2-3 short written narrations per week for history (8 & 11yo). My 8yo usually writes a sentence and the 11yo writes 3-5 sentences.