Narration—a painstaking process

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  • February 23, 2011 at 7:22 pm
    teachme2learn
    Participant

    I’ve asked questions before about narrations and have received helpful answers, so, here I am again.

    When we do our Family subjects, the narrations seem to take as long as the readings.  Is that normal?  When one child is narrating the others  seem to lose focus.  With the narrations taking so long the older children with fuller schedules end up behind in other lessons.

    In history my eleven-year-old son is struggling to give narrations for The Children’s Homer.  I’m not sure if he is being lazy or if he genuinely has problems.

    Any thoughts?

    February 23, 2011 at 8:58 pm
    amandajhilburn
    Participant

    Are you talking about oral narration? I have to separate my 2 so that they do not hear each other. This may not be what you mean, but my two EASILY distract one another.

    I send one away to read or have a snack while the other one narrates orally if they are having trouble concentrating.

    February 23, 2011 at 11:02 pm
    coralloyd
    Participant

    My girls know that I am going to only read half of the reading, then ask one of them for a narration. They don’t know witch one I am going to ask. Then I finish the reading and ask for a narration from the other. They never narrate the same passage.

    February 24, 2011 at 3:07 pm
    teachme2learn
    Participant

    Thanks so much for the ideas.  I’ll have to give them a try.

    After I posted my son gave me an unusually good narration for The Children’s Homer but I did notice he has trouble keeping the details in order.  They tend to be out of sequence or he’ll insert them as they come to his memory giving a very confused narration.

    February 24, 2011 at 4:18 pm
    blessedmom
    Member

    This resource I just found was very inspiring…almost, but not quite Wink as inspiring as Sonya!

    http://wildflowersandmarbles.blogspot.com/2010/07/considering-charlotte-mason-and-our_05.html

    The blog post is very worthwhile, but if you scroll down about half the page…at the bottom of her post before the comments section, is a pdf you can download.  It’s a compilation of her thoughts on CM Language arts, and it’s very clear and encouraging.

    Here’s the link for the pdf:  https://acrobat.com/#d=NbmrNYZSo1KQ28v2*uxQ3g 

    February 25, 2011 at 11:50 pm
    Rachel White
    Participant

    Perhaps on the Children’s Homer, he could be doing a written narration? He’s at that age’ plus he could be encouraged to take notes on those hard-to-remember details while reading it, then when he does a written narration, he can use his notes. It’s a good skill to develop.

    Just an idea!

    Rachel

    March 4, 2011 at 12:51 am
    teachme2learn
    Participant

    Thanks for all the suggestions.  We certainly have some work to do.Smile

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