Narration Examples

I wholeheartedly encourage you to model the narration yourself rather than showing them examples. As Suzukimom says, narration is not easy. It takes time to develop the skills, but the skills will indeed develop with practice. A slow start is okay – they don’t need to be masters immediately.

Have fun with it…narrating is a challenge!

I think your children are pretty young right?  Mine are 8 and 5, are we in about the same place?  My 8 year old has gotten much better this fall since we left off in the spring but there are still times when I was like, “nope, I don’t remember saying anything like that!”  I started using Sonya’s idea for writing down some key words on the board before reading Famous Men of Ancient Greece and that helped, they enjoyed the game of listening for them.  I have also decided to use more of Catherine Vos’ Story Bible for Josh-Malachi as they were really having a hard time getting much info out of the long passages regarding the Judges.  There is also too much for their age in A Child’s Geography (but I am loving it!) so I am just skipping the more detailed parts.  Those are just a few ideas we have had to incorporate for narations this year.  Are the passages too difficult to understand?  Are the words used to foreign and difficult?  Do they need some prompts to help focus? 

Just out of curiosity, are you using the SCM modules, and if so which one are you on?  I feel like you are and maybe we are on the same one?  Mod 2?  I have found it a bit harder for them than Mod 1.