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Narration – immediately after the reading?
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For a slightly older child can a narration wait a while, or should it be given right after the child has read something? I’m working on organizing my girls into “guided” and “independant” and I’m wondering if I need to have my 12 yod’s reading be part of “guided” since I want her to narrate to me. Or can she read the selection during her own independent time, and then narrate to me about an hour later during her guided time?
I’ll chime in here since no one else has yet… I don’t see a problem with waiting an hour if your daughter is okay with it and If she is able to remember what she read about an hour later. However, I would think that the BEST way to do a narration is immediately after the passage is read. Even for me, I forget details after an hour, especially if the reading wasn’t something I was really excited about.
So, I think it would probably be best to do it right after, but it could be done an hour later if you really want it to be, depending on the child and their ability to remember. My daughter is 10 and if I wait very long for a narration, I get a very short one because she has forgot a lot already, and I get a lot of “I don’t remember’s.”
Maybe someone else can give some further advice.
HTH,
~Michelle
Hi Rene,
My oldest ds, who is 14, narrates later in the day – sometimes hours after he’s read. This has worked well for our family and he seems to remember plenty. I’m sure it depends on the child, their age, how long they’ve been narrating, and your family schedule. I would do what works best for your dd and your particular schedule.
God Bless,
Heather
If your daughter has had experience with narrating, she might be able to use this delayed set-up as a step toward self-education and identifying key concepts in a passage. What you could do is have her read the passage, then shut the book and jot down 3-5 key words that were covered in the passage. When it is time to narrate, she could use those key words as hooks on which to hang her expanded narration. I probably wouldn’t allow her to write extensive notes to be a crutch, but identifying a few key words could be a helpful exercise. Just an idea.
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