Just curious...does anyone NOT do written narration?

[golfcartmama]

Title says it all!

[8filltheheart]

yes.

[Amy Jo]

Won't until 4th grade, and then it would start with once a week. Here is Ambleside's S&S, which is more reasonable for the writing abilities of my kids.

 

Amy

[NanceXToo]

We don't.

[momto2Cs]

We don't currently, but I want my 4th grade ds to start doing them... one science and one history narration per week, although maybe not until the fall.... hmmmm....

[Love2Smile]

Don't and never did. My kids hated it, and they are fine! I have not ruined them! LOL

[angela in ohio]

We do very little. I prefer oral narration, because at the age when we're doing narration, I like to reserve writing for penmanship and copywork/dictation.

[Jayne J]

We don't either. Ds can tell me so much more when he knows he doesn't have to write it all down. He dislikes writing, and although we are working on building up his ability to write more, he is just way more verbal. He can talk forever about what we read, but if he thinks he'll have to write it out, he'll clam up. I generally do a verbal narration, then a drawing and ocassionally *one* written sentence about what we read.

[Alicia64]

we also do oral narration.

 

My boys are 7.

 

Alley

[BatmansWife]

We never have.

[redsquirrel]

I take dictation of their narration until partway through fourth grade. I don't mind and it makes my kids much happier about doing narration. I put them in their history notebook along with mapwork and any pictures they want to draw etc.

 

Now that my elder son is a 5th grader he does all his own narrations and outlines with no fuss.

[debbielong]

oral till fourth grade

[prairiegirl]

We do oral until Gr. 5.

[ocelotmom]

I don't do written narration with my second grader. I suspect that would provoke meltdowns without any particular benefit at this point.

[mcconnellboys]

I do not do written or oral narration because when I tried it with my son, he began to detest history. I didn't want to completely kill his love of the subject, so I backed off. He outlines, writes papers, keeps a timeline, does memory work, etc., etc. related to history. When he wants to narrate to me something regarding a book he's reading, I allow it. When he wants to ask me questions about a topic that has come up because of his reading and this leads to a discussion, that's fine, too. But the forced narrating, just did not work for us.....

[golfcartmama]

Awesome! You guys made me feel much better! I do make him do oral narrations for history, but I don't write them down. I also ask him to summarize things after he's read sometimes, just to make sure he gets it, but I was feeling like I was doing something wrong!