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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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