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Teacozy
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Hi All,
I am just getting my feet wet with the CM method and have a quick question for you:
How often do you have your children narrate, do copywork and dictation?
My "gut" says copywork and narration, on some level, should be done daily and dictation perhaps weekly. If you do narrations daily, do you select different topics for each day, depending on what you're covering? (I.e., nature one day, poetry the next, history, etc.)
Thanks! Jacque
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My kids (dd8 and ds5) do copywork and narration daily. I print out the collect for the day and they each copy that. My ds5 does narrations after a Bible story, after a history chapter, after a science discussion, etc. My dd8 does more indepth narrations, and with more subjects. We just started doing dictations, nothing formal.
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Teacozy
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Thanks Paula-
Sigh. I think this might be quite the transition for us. My ds, 11, dislikes writing, so doing narration for every subject might cause mutiny. As it is, I'm typing as he dictates his thoughts to me. (I kid you not, it looks like it physically hurts him to take pencil to paper - but he can sketch all day long.) I'll have to ease him into this mode of learning
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My 10yos is still not ready for written narrations- at this point it is oral only, and I don't write it down for him. I found that my writing or typing distracted him, and he felt like he was being tested. Just sitting quietly and letting him narrate orally leads to a more relaxed and much 'fuller' narration.
Also, we only read/ narrate one subject each day (history Monday, science Tuesday, etc.), but he does copywork daily.
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I also just began a narration binder with my oldest, and he really loves it. He reads a book now, brings it to me, and says he wants to narrate it to me! We've only done 4 so far, and I still have some questions.
For example, how much do you "prod"? If there's a main event that he's forgetting, can I ask him a question to jog his memory? How much do you do this?
And after we print it out & put it in the binder, I've asked him to draw one little illustration on the page. He isn't very interested in this part, though. Other ideas? Stickers? Nothing at all? Does it matter?
Do we do narrations with books that he reads, that I read to him, or both? How do we choose which books to narrate - his choice completely? Just our favorites?
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happymama wrote:
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I am wondering this as well.
My children do copywork each day. The 10 year old does a short paragraph. The 7 year old has some small motor delays, so he does one sentence a week, but we break it up into a couple of words a day. We are just getting into narrations. The older children take turns narrating after Bible or saint stories, and our family unit study reading (history, geography, science, artist and composer study - only one a day.) My 10 year old also has a book box filled with one book each of fiction, non-fiction, biography, religious, and science/nature. She reads these during afternoon quiet time, and either writes a short narration or does an oral narration on what she has read.
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