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Narration Question

Name: Teach Them Diligently (Branson)
Start: 2025-05-15T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-05-17T23:59:59-05:00
Location: Branson, MO

Tagged: Beginning Narration, beginning oral narration, oral narration

This topic has 5 replies, 3 voices, and was last updated 6 years, 7 months ago by totheskydear.

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August 28, 2018 at 12:09 pm
cyntheburb1
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Hello, I’m just beginning narration with my 6 year old. I’d like to be studying history as the topic we work toward narrating. I would like to use Story of the World by Susan Bauer. Has anyone ever used that book for beginning narration? If so, how did you go about it? If not, what living books on history might you recommend?
August 28, 2018 at 12:52 pm
totheskydear
Participant
You narrate the same way no matter what book is used.
August 28, 2018 at 1:42 pm
cyntheburb1
Participant
Yes. I’m just concerned about splitting it up paragraph by paragraph at the beginning. She’s never done this before, so I’m concerned about the chunks of reading being too large for her starting out but if I break it down into paragraph by paragraph as is suggested for first time narrations, it won’t make as much coherent sense.
August 28, 2018 at 1:51 pm
Monica
Participant
In my opinion, Story of the World is too advanced for a 6YO beginning narration. We’ve typically begun with Aesop’s Fables, Beatrix Potter, or something similar.
However, if you’d prefer to begin with history, perhaps some biographies geared towards children, like the ones by the D’Aulaires or Jean Fritz.
August 28, 2018 at 1:57 pm
cyntheburb1
Participant
Thanks – that was my concern too. I was wondering – do you know of any living books that introduce the concept of history? I have some picture books that we can use for Ancient Egypt, etc, that would probably work for intro to narration, but I’d love to have one just starting out on the concept of history.
August 28, 2018 at 2:04 pm
totheskydear
Participant
Derp! I totally misunderstood the question! Haha