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Bookswithtea
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Posted: Feb 27 2006 at 6:35pm | IP Logged Quote Bookswithtea
When you have a child narrate and then type up their words, what do you do about the fact that they don't talk the way they would write? My kids don't talk in complete sentences. They pause, use fragments, run ons, etc. I normally type it as close to how they said it as possible. Do you expect them to be able to "clean it up" after seeing it in print? And if so, at what age?

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Posted: Feb 28 2006 at 10:31am | IP Logged Quote Meredith
I just type it as it is narrated, mixed up as they seem sometimes, them when they begin wrting their own at say aged 9-10, it's a whole new process. It's hard to resist wanting to perfect it for them, but try...

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Posted: Feb 28 2006 at 11:29am | IP Logged Quote lapazfarm
I do too, but as they get older, you can introduce editing by reading sections back to them and asking if they would like to change any of it a bit to make it sound better. Usually their ears will pick up on the sentence fragments when they are read aloud and cause them to want to re-word it a bit. Either way it is their own work and I honor their choices.

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