I am reading about two paragraphs of a chapter book to 6 year old my daughter, then asking her to narrate it. Her narrations are usually very short, as in “They walked on the path [skip lots of events] and then got to the mountain. That’s all I know.” What can I do to teach her to narrate more? Should I include questions after she is done? I am doing this, and she knows the answers to them, but I want to make sure I am not destroying the process. (“What happened on the path?” etc.) After her turn, I read the rest of the chapter, and her 8 year old brother narrates it. His narration is full and detailed, and she is sitting there hearing it. Sometimes I narrate instead of the kids when we are short on time, as a model for them. Will she just pick it up from the modeling?
Note: We have already read and narrated the Aesop’s Fables book, so two paragraphs from a chapter book are what I am trying to do as a “next step.”