5 Steps to Successful Charlotte Mason Narration
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2024
- Here's how to set your child up for success when you ask for a narration after a homeschool lesson.
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Thank you Sonya! I have a 6 year old who has been read long passages to since he was a baby. He's also incredibly verbal. He can narrate (when he wants to) in incredibly detail, length, with a vast vocabulary, inserting his own opinions and asking great questions. You'd think we would be set! However, I am up against 2 main problems: #1) when he just doesn't want to narrate he'll give me one fact (or just repeat verbatim the last line I read) and say "And that's all". I know he remembers more, he just doesn't FEEL like narrating. I don't know how to respond to this. #2 is reading a book like The Book of Indians, which is a living book but has a lot of facts in it. He really struggles narrating this book - if I take it a paragraph at a time, he tends to not remember the "facts", and can't narrate it. If I read a page, he can remember if something has HAPPENED but a lot of the details are left out, and I'm not sure if this is "ok". I want him to remember some of these "facts" because this is what will help differentiate between the different tribes described in the book. But obviously Mason warns about a fact based education or fishing for certain information during a narration. Any advice would be appreciated! (:
Thank you for reaching out with your question and providing such detail on your child's skill and the specific situations where you see him struggling with narration. This blogpost has some helpful tips for how to set children up for success with different books and also touches on what to do if you feel like it is falling into the category of a character issue. simplycharlottemason.com/blog/setting-success-narration-q-part-5/
Here are some creative narration ideas that you can try with some of those more challenging to narrate books to see if they help him be more successful.
simplycharlottemason.com/timesavers/narration/
This post touches on how to correct when you feel that key facts are being left out.
simplycharlottemason.com/blog/correct-im-wrong-narration-q-part-7/
Your child is still young and as you point out we want to be careful not to give the impression that there are certain facts or a correct answer that we are looking for. While we do want our children to learn the information, be encouraged that you will circle back to this time period when he is older and he will have another opportunity to connect with the information at a different level. Here is a post to encourage you in that.
simplycharlottemason.com/blog/why-repeat-history-time-periods/
You are such a gifted teacher. Thank you for this!
You are so welcome!
WOW! Sonya I never imagined a homeschool program done by lunch time! THANK YOU very very much for sending these different program schedules. Truly truly helpful!
You are so welcome!
Thanks for the video. I am new to Charlotte Mason, and I excited to learn more about her approach.
It seemed, to me that she influenced the Reggio Emilia Approach...😮😊
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much for taking time to respond to me. This is very valuable and I actually read it with my kids and the younger one says "alright mama, I will read only the chapters we've got through😊" I say I appreciate that, but that it's also lovely thing to be able to wait for the next chapter and we should learn to grow in those patients 😅. Thank you so much I will definitely try these little by little. Stay blessed❤
Thank you for your response and update on how the feedback was received! Keep reaching out with your questions as you have them, we are here to help!
So helpful! It's been like pulling teeth sometimes. My husband has worked in radio production and I was thinking of having my six year old daughter narrate into the computer for a recording. She loves to do this with her own stories. Curious your thoughts on this.
Hi, This sounds like an excellent idea! Feel free to incorporate fun and creative ideas to encourage narration. Narration can be a difficult skill when we are first starting out. Charlotte Mason would start requiring narrations of children at six years old, however it is very common for children to be a little hesitant. It can be helpful for us to model narration ourselves either by narrating the whole passage or taking turns with our children.
The book "Know and Tell" by Karen Glass is a great resource for looking at narration over time with children of different ages. You can find that resource here:
simplycharlottemason.com/store/know-and-tell-the-art-of-narration/
For more narration ideas check out this post:
simplycharlottemason.com/timesavers/narration/
Thank you so much. I haven't done much narration, because I just haven't known how to implement it. This gave me some great tips.
Glad it was helpful! Check out the additional narration resources linked in the comments for some more tips! Another great resource that many homeschool families have found helpful is "Know and Tell" by Karen Glass:
simplycharlottemason.com/store/know-and-tell-the-art-of-narration/
Thank you so much for the all wonderful information, tips, and guidance! I'm new to Charlotte Mason and I find your podcast so helpful! Thanks again!
You are so welcome!
I needed this, thank you! Narration tips always appreciated!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for this information. Q- Do you have tips on helping older students to look ahead/behind when reading independently
Thank you for reaching out with your question! Absolutely, a child should be doing pre-reading reviews by the time that they reach high school, you can see this under "Narration Question #59" at the link below as well as a link within that question that gives more information on how to do this. You could utilize this section to teach your student how to do it on their own the same way you have been modeling with family read alouds If this is new for your student, you may want to complete the pre-reading review together before they go off to read today's selection independently. simplycharlottemason.com/blog/narration-high-school-narration-q-part-17/
Here is another post specific to pre-reading reviews: simplycharlottemason.com/blog/pre-reading-reviews/
Thank you, this is very helpful! @@SimplyCharlotteMason
I love this, I'm looking for advice though, do I stop my children from picking up our read aloud before our read aloud time? I battle with my kids on this, they really love to read but I would have my bascuit and they would go through it and I feel it spoils our chapter time and I don't how to address it with discouraging them, any advice will be appreciated please🙏
Hi, Thanks for joining us, this is a great question! For read alouds that you will be asking for a narration, you want to do one single reading before asking for that narration. If they have already read the material, then they are getting that information multiple times. It may be helpful across the board to have them save those books for school time with you and then when you are finished with them, they are free to re-read the books as they would like. Many of us can relate to wanting to read a favorite book again, so there is no harm in that. As you point out, you also do not want to dampen their thirst for reading. Perhaps having a basket of "free read" books that they can read at any time would help. You could include books that you have already finished for school as well as books they have never read. The library can be a great resource for additional books. SCM has "bonus titles" on many of the history booklists, so that could be another great spot for finding more books on a given topic that they can read as they wish. Here is a link to "Genesis Through Deuteronomy & Ancient Egypt" as an example. simplycharlottemason.com/planning/curriculum-guide/genesis-deuteronomy-ancient-egypt/
Another great place to find books is the CM Organizer's Bookfinder feature, here is a link. You can search by topic and grade level. Titles followed by [SCM] have been recommended by SCM and titles without this designation have been added by other homeschooling families.
apps.simplycharlottemason.com/
This blogpost also has some great suggestions on where to find books for prolific readers.
simplycharlottemason.com/blog/your-questions-answered-prolific-reader/
Step 1 - Pick a Good Living Book
Step 2 - Look Ahead and Behind
Step 3 - Read the Passage
Step 4 - Have Your Student Retell the Passage
Step 5 - Discuss Any related Questions or Ideas
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