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My children are very young so we don't do anything like formal narrations yet, but as I read more about the Charlotte Mason method I am wondering how to respond if an older child says or writes something blatantly, factually incorrect as a part of his or her narration. For example, "This chapter was about frogs which are a kind of mammal."
Does the teacher stop and correct the student mid-narration? After the child finishes narrating? Not at all?
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Hi, Sara, and welcome --
For oral narrations, I wouldn't interrupt, as that can be very discouraging to the child and to the whole process. Sometimes I just file such an error away and make sure to correct the next time we read or talk about the topic.
For me, it's a matter of focusing on the specifics of what we're working on. In other words, if the most important task at hand is to develop the skill of narrating orally, then I'd concentrate on the overall flow of the narrative -- does it generally make sense? Does it recount what was most important in the passage? Is the child comfortable in talking about what he's read? Little facts can always be dealt with later.
For written narrations, you'd generally be talking about an older child anyway, so, yes, when the narration was complete, I'd ask about the error. I would wonder if the child misunderstood something in the reading, or if she was just being quick and sloppy, or if she'd just never picked up on a certain set of facts.
Is this making sense? Hope so.
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I should add, too, that because I have a pretty informal style of homeschooling, our "narrations" were always pretty informal, too (such as conversation over dinner.) That can actually make it very easy to correct those little factoid errors, because the narration is happening in the context of a conversation.
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SaraP wrote:
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No, I would not interrupt. Narration is for working on different skills than memorizing facts perfectly. Praise whatever was correct when the child finishes.
You might casually add, "Oh and we know frogs aren't mammals, right!" after you are done praising.
MacBeth taught me that we can learn alot about our children by what specific facts they DO choose to narrate out of the whole picture.
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HOw do you deal with a kid who says something that is grammatically just wrong, but they are trying to use an idiom or new vocabulary? I had one today that went like this (talking about Juan Diego not thinking the bishop would believe him)And he was right, because when he stepped foot to talk to the bishop, the bishop said, "I don't want to see this guy. He's all naked." The naked part was an interesting embellishment, but the "stepped foot" part is what I'm curious about.
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Rachel,
During an oral narration, I would ignore the error (just like the factual errors). Then, as Karen recommended, I might bring it up after the narration/later to ask the child what he meant by "stepped foot."
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