If your child is wanting to dictate to you and you have the time to jot it down, that’s great. I would go along with the age recommendation for narration, which is 6 years old, because storytelling is much the same. I got my daughter one of those comp books that has lines on the bottom and room for drawing on the top. She dictates a story to me every once in awhile. Then she illustrates each page over the next few days. We’ve done several things with it – matching up sentence strips that I make, locating words she can read, pulling from it for oral spelling, identifying sentence structure on a very beginner level. She is 7, nearly 8 and started this about a year ago.
Blessings,
Cindy