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Narration How-To

Name: Thrive! NCHE Homeschool Conference
Start: 2025-05-22T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-05-24T23:59:59-05:00
Location: Winston-Salem, NC

This topic has 4 replies, 3 voices, and was last updated 14 years, 3 months ago by Kim Urband.

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January 22, 2011 at 1:02 am
Kim Urband
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I have a 17 year old son who I am asking for the first time to do written narrations on some of his reading, history an literature in particular. What is the best way to guide him in this process, especially if it is a quite lengthy reading assignment?
Do your children do any kind of an outline before writing? Or do they just write everything learned by a particular reading? How long is long enough when writing? I’m just baffled here and could use some hand holding.
I just had a thought… if any of your children would be willing to write a post for this forum on how he/she goes about a written narration, that would be a tremendous help.
Thank you for any assistance you can give me.
Blessings,
Kim
January 22, 2011 at 1:16 am
CindyS
Participant
My children type up a summary of their reading each day. For literature, it works out to about 20-30 minutes of reading and 10-15 minutes of typing. At the end of the book, they can then delete what is not pertinent and elaborate on what they want to highlight. Keeping a timeline helps in the retention as well.
January 24, 2011 at 10:55 pm
Kim Urband
Participant
Thank you, Cindy!
Kim
January 25, 2011 at 4:06 am
Sonya Shafer
Moderator
It might help in the beginning to ask him to write about one particular aspect of his reading. Once he has that process down, ask him to write about two aspects. Pretty soon he’ll work his way up to everything.
January 25, 2011 at 8:11 pm
Kim Urband
Participant
Thank you, Sonya!
Kim