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How often to narrate
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I’m new to CM and an wondering how often do you do narration? Do you discuss or have them narrate with every single book you read? Are there some books you read “just for fun” and let them just sit back and enjoy without narrating back? We do a lot of reading throughout our day and I just am not sure how I could also fit in narration for all of that.
My general rule has been to try and narrate everything except before bed readings….some written, the rest oral. In real life I struggle to do that much, though….
With Ambleside Online, most of the books are narrated – but there is a list of “free read” books that you don’t narrate. So basically you narrate the history, science, and a couple of lit books, at any point in time….
My 8 yo son does not narrate every book he reads. He narrates audiobooks via dictation. He dictates a story he’s seen in a play. He narrates myths. I let him decide what to narrate. We are transitioning into CM homeschool, having left behind a private school in December.
I plan to transition him to typing his narration within a year or so.
I have my dd narrate (in some form – sometimes this is in the form of drawing, sometimes as a notebook page, and sometimes orally) every reading that is for “school”. We also use AO, so this would be all the books that are assigned according to their booklists and schedule. The books she reads on her free time or that we do as bedtime family read-alouds are not narrated. CM talks about in her writings repeatedly about readings needing to be processed and reproduced in some form if they are to be *really* learned. The child also needs to take responsibility to do this work himself (as opposed to regurgitating facts on a worksheet or some similar kind of teacher-directed activity). Narration is the tool that we use to do this.
Jen
Not sure how old your child(ren) are, but my two schooling aged children are 10 and 7. The 10 year old narrates everything he is assigned to read, except for what we call “assigned reading”. It’s a book that he reads a chapter at a time for bedtime, but I choose the book. He mostly does his narrations orally, but does one or two written narrations a week. Ocassionally, we do a fun narration like draw your favorite scene from what we read, or make a scene out of legos of your favorite part of the book. The 7 yo. (and my 5yo. when he wants to) only do oral narration. The narrations don’t take very long at all, so it shouldn’t be hard to incorperate it into your day.
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