He does not incorporate narration, but a parent could add that in if they wanted. I’m still new at it, but the books don’t seem to follow any particular order, other than increasing in difficulty. There are lists online that others have created using his booklist and they’ve put the history in chronological order, or they’ve ordered them according to grade or reading level. Dr. Robinson advised that they were just to read through the books in the order listed. There are tests for a few of the books, and he had vocabulary words for the books that the student is to memorize. We haven’t delved into the vocab words yet.
There is a mom on the yahoo list who has modified Robinson to fit her family and has mixed it with CM. They do Robinson in the morning, which is reading, writing (or copywork), and math. Then in the afternoon they incorporate some CM elements: picture study, composer study, nature study, etc. Here is a blog post of hers about it: http://thesimplelifeof8.blogspot.com/2011/05/rc.html
Dr. Robinson recommends 2 hours of math, 1 hour of writing, and 2 hours of reading. I love sticking with these basics, but we don’t stick to those times, as of yet anyway. We currently do 1 hr of math, 30 minutes writing, 1 hr of reading and then we add in some other things we feel is important like a daily read-aloud time, typing, etc.