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My daughter Clair gave this narration when she was not quite 3 1/2 years old. It is one of my favorites because, up until the moment she told the chapter back to me, I hadn't even realized she was listening to the book!
Clair's Narration of Chapter 17 of the Secret Garden, "A Tantrum"
February 6, 2001
Mary was asleep, and Colin woke her up. He was crying. The nurse came to Mary and said, "Mary, scold Colin." Mary went to his room and scolded Colin, and Colin was still having a temper tantrum. He thought there was a lump coming down his back, but he didn't have a lump coming down his back. They saw the spine, and they saw no lump. "There's no lump coming down your back," Mary said. Colin wasn't having a tantrum anymore. He said, "Mary, please stay with me." Mary stayed with him. She and Colin had beef tea. Colin fell asleep.
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Hi Alice,
Amazing what a 31/2 year old can do!
I have a question...
I've heard that one should just let the child narrate without any interference/guidance and I've heard that one should offer transitions, choices for phrasing, etc...
What have you found that works best? What do you recommend?
Thank you, mam,
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ladybugs wrote:
Hi Alice,
Amazing what a 31/2 year old can do!
I have a question...
I've heard that one should just let the child narrate without any interference/guidance and I've heard that one should offer transitions, choices for phrasing, etc...
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This is a great question, Maria. I always just write down what my children say without much guidance. Still, as with everything, I follow my instinct. If a child seemed to need a suggestion to get started or feel comfortable, I would not hesitate to offer it.
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I also just write what my child is saying. If he's not making sence, I repeat what he says as I type. If he corrects himself, I write the "correction." More often than not, he just says something to the affect of "Yeah. That's right." So I write what he said! On occasion -- after he's completely done with the narration -- I'll mention run-ons or that he used "And" or "Then" to begin sentences fairly often, yet the sentences would be fine without those words. I only do this on occasion and if it's been a big problem in that narration. He's 9 now. When he was younger I never mentioned any mistakes.
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Alice, that is so great! My 2 1/2 (almost 3) year old ds Elijah loves to listen to my older 2's narrations, and then he'll say now it's my turn. Usually it's something about a dump truck, or a farmer and a tractor "going around the farm plowing the field", then he'll say "St. Joseph, pray for us" because that's who he chose for his patron saint this year. He loves devotion time before school and all our read alouds and somehow he's just decided that narration and prayer go together. He'll also tell me about one of the stories we read that day at a totally different time, like it just occured to him to mention it.
Just thought I'd share, isn't this what makes home schooling so great! Cheers!
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Isn't it amazing how much the younger ones learn just by listening in on what the older children are doing? Just think how effortless narration will be for him when he is six!
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Oh Alice, I know! Hey another question for you...do you do *picture* narrations ever?? I don't necessarily mean for art appreciation or anything, but to have your girls just look at a picture and give a descriptive narration, maybe that they can use for copywork as well or for a descriptive writing piece??? Just curious.
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>do you do *picture* narrations ever?? I don't >necessarily mean for art appreciation or anything, but >to have your girls just look at a picture and give a >descriptive narration, maybe that they can use for >copywork as well or for a descriptive writing piece???
Meredith, it is so funny you should ask me this now. At a certain point yesterday, after a fairly sunny day, the sky became dark, and the wind began to blow. I noticed my three year old staring out the window with interest and asked him to describe what he saw. It occurred to me that this would be an excellent pre-writing exercise. My 11-year-old (who loves to write) commented that she was just thinking it would make a good scene to write about.
Other than that, I guess they automatically do descriptive writing in their nature journals. In the winter when we aren't out as much, my daughters sometimes write about the scene outside, especially if there happens to be a hawk or even a cat in view! Now that I think about it, my oldest daughter once wrote a very nice story (or maybe half a story--I can't remember) based on a Monet painting. I'll have to dust it off and post it!
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Oh, would you post it?? That would be great. I had Emma look at a b/w picture in her Cardinal 3 reader that is accompanied by a poem entitled "God's Providence", but I covered the poem and the title so she could just look at the picture and give me as much detail about what thoughts it involked, things she liked about it and what she saw. Her descriptions I just jotted down as she mentioned them and then I encouraged her to make a paragraph out of her descriptions. It actually turned out quite well and I thought it would be nice to kind of *mix-up* our narrations a little so it could give her some ideas for writing stories on her own. Maybe I'll email it to you and you can post it if you think others might appreciate this approach too?? Let me know your thoughts.
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>Maybe I'll email it to you and you can post it if you >think others might appreciate this approach too??
Please do! That would be great.
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Alice,
Isn't it funny what the kiddoes pick up? My ds who hates to stick around "officially" for read-alouds is often found lurking in the shadows. He does his best work this way...He learned to read this way as a matter of fact...by listening in the corner of the room playing with his trucks while is older twin sisters were sweating it out with phonics...haha...he used to get frustrated with them because THEY weren't learning fast enough for HIM to learn as fast as HE wanted to. But he never wanted to sit down with me to learn. He loved to figure it out on his own..."stop teaching me mom, i'm trying to learn something!"
My dd today was trying to give me a narration while the room was in total chaos...I got hit in the back of the head with a plush globe...an orange balloon came whizzing by losing its air, the baby was crying and my dd was trying to stay focussed on the vikings...
"Once upon a time in Greenland there lived a king called Eric the Red. He was the father of Leif the Lucky. Eric the Red was one of the most important vikings. He invented the thing. It was a kind of gathering when a bunch of vikings gathered together to decide what to do."
hmmm
I think we need a summer outting...
time to shovel the snow...
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