Name: CHEC Rocky Mountain Homeschool Conference
Start: 2025-06-12T00:00:00-05:00
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Tagged: 6 yr old, narration, year one

This topic has 10 replies, 10 voices, and was last updated 7 years ago by Kath85.

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September 9, 2015 at 5:58 pm
Alicia Hart
Participant
My first three kids all started narration with Aesop’s Fables and then moved to Fifty Famous Stories – no problem. My 4th child is 6 and really struggling even to narrate parts of Aesop. She is not able to infer meaning of new words from the context. Any alternatives?
I thought I had it all figured out. Ha-ha! Every child is so beautifully different! I guess it would be too boring if they were all exactly alike. 🙂

September 9, 2015 at 6:44 pm
Monica
Participant
Ha! I came on to recommend Aesop’s Fables. Maybe some Beatrix Potter stories (Peter Rabbit, etc.)? Maybe some fairy tales? We typically begin with Aesop’s Fables, too.
September 9, 2015 at 7:05 pm
sarah2106
Participant
I was going to suggest Beatrix Potter or Winnie the Pooh. If too long just do a portion of the story. Maybe a story would be easier because the “flow”
My kids never really enjoyed Aesop’s Fables, but yes… I still read them time to time 🙂
September 10, 2015 at 8:24 am
HollyS
Participant
What about a picture book? Some of my DC struggled with any sort of chapter books at that age.
September 10, 2015 at 4:50 pm
karivaz1
Participant
I have a six year old who doesn’t like to narrate stories. He enjoys hearing Aesop and Beatrix Potter, but somehow I can’t get him to narrate any stories yet.
But he loves hearing about animals from the Christian Liberty Nature Reader (I am reading Book 1 to him), and he enjoys narrating those. I try to have him narrate one passage a day. They are just the right length for him, and while I only have him narrate when I read a passage for the first time, many of the passages still have to be re-read at bedtime again and again.
September 10, 2015 at 10:52 pm
butterflylake
Participant
We too use The Christian Liberty Nature Reader – book 1. I may be getting more out of it than my DS 🙂
September 11, 2015 at 9:44 am
jmac17
Participant
We started with simple stories such as Goldilocks or Billy Goats Gruff. Even if the child was already familiar with the story, it was good practice in remembering and telling the story.
December 16, 2015 at 9:48 pm
Cassandra
Participant
My son did well with narrating Paddle to the Sea this year… though sometimes, I let him narrate one or two paragraphs. 🙂
December 17, 2015 at 6:38 am
Kayla
Participant
We do Aesop. But it took a while for my daughter to be able to do the whole fable. I started with just one paragraph at a time.
June 5, 2018 at 4:03 pm
Kath85
Participant
Hi ladies, I’m trying to get all my ducks in a row for beginning year one with my six-year-old this fall and am trying to remember how often that age group should narrate. Is it after every subject (several narrations per day) or would it be better to pick a few for the week? He is a rather reluctant learner, so I don’t want to push too hard and fast but I do want to ensure that he is retaining what we learn. I’m sure this topic has been discussed before, but I couldn’t find where.
June 5, 2018 at 4:08 pm
Kath85
Participant
Oops, meant to post this in a new thread.