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Posted: June 19 2009 at 11:00am | IP Logged Quote insegnante
I don't know why, but narration sounds like this great idea that is secretly very complicated and rife with opportunity for me as teacher to mess it up.

I'm trying to keep a list of books my 7-year-old has read independently. We just got a new bunch of library books and he said he'd read one of them all the way through by himself. I don't remember the exact prompting question, but he basically ended up narrating, in almost 600 words, the entire story for me when I asked him what happened in it. I typed it all out while he was talking, without drawing attention to the fact that I was doing so. So I'm left wondering if I actually have his first recorded "narration," and that was all there is to it. I'm wondering if it would have gone differently if I had labeled the question and his answer as part of "homeschooling."


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Posted: June 24 2009 at 7:14am | IP Logged Quote Sharyn
I'm no narration expert, I'm trying to work it all out myself.

I can tell you that my 8 yr old dd writes long, very well composed stories, comprising of chapters no less, for fun by herself. We have started writing as a subject recently and I have been struggling to get even a few sentences from her    

Sounds like he's a really enthusic reader though and his ability to tell back such a detailed retelling of what he's read is fabulous. Hope it stays this easy for you    
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