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Becky Parker
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Posted: Nov 20 2005 at 1:47pm | IP Logged Quote Becky Parker
Could someone please share how you do "Studied Dictation"? I have my kids do copy work everyday, but we don't do so well with dictation. Am I to use the same passage from their copy work for dictation? Are they to study the passage first by noting punctuation, spelling etc? Is that all? I'd like to incorporate more of this now that we are in the habit of copy work. I'm just not sure how.
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Posted: Nov 21 2005 at 4:41am | IP Logged Quote Erin
Becky,
We have started putting more of an effort in here lately. What we do is a copywork piece one day, the next day we use the same piece as our dictation. I give them a moment to study the punctuation and spelling. When I dictate I still remind the boys (10 and 8) of punctuation. Dd12 doesn't need reminding.

Studied dictation is really paying off for us. For the first time dd is paying attention to her spelling, I can see improvement with all the children. We had done copywork for years but it just wasn't enough. Dictation makes a difference.

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