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SylviaB
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Posted: March 04 2010 at 6:31am \| IP Logged

How do you handle narration with multiple children?

My son is almost six and we are starting to do a little bit of narration.

well, his 4 year old sister wants to do it too. so I listen to her "narration." It turns out to be the exact same thing her big brother wrote, I know she is too young for narratoin now, but I am wondering hos to handle this later. How do yu take narration with multiple children without having them get the information from their sibling rather than the book?

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Posted: March 04 2010 at 1:50pm \| IP Logged

If I have a child who starts doing that I will alternate the order in which they narrate. So one day your son narrates first, the next day your daughter narrates first. (I mean when older too)

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Posted: March 04 2010 at 8:00pm \| IP Logged

What I've done is do 'group narrations'.

I start with the youngest and type in what they remember.
Then I ask the next in line to fill in a bit, and so on.

I do the typing in different fonts for each child.

An example with two children (younger child in bold font, older child in regular font).

St. Benedict the Moor

St. Benedict was a slave and then he was a free man. His parents were Ethiopian Christians who had been taken from their homeland to be slaves in Sicily. They worked so well that they were told that their first born child would be freed.

He was being made fun of and then a man came and told them that in a few years Benedict would be famous. The man was a Franciscan hermit named Jerome Lanzi who rebuked them saying "You are making fun of this man now because he is black. But I tell you, before long, all the country will be saying great things about him"

He became a famous friar. There were many miracles performed though Benedict. He became superior because he was a holy man with a fantastic memory of scripture.

The nice thing about this is that if the four year old wanted to join in, she could say what she remembered and then her older sisters would have filled in the narration (although my four year old wanted to add a picture- so I have a nicely colored picture with this narration instead)

I have individual narrations as well but I found that this worked well for family studies.

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