MorganClassicalPrep Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 How do the review questions and narrations get handled in your house? (Particularly by children who can't write out the answers on their own.) Do you just have them answered orally, or write the answers out to keep in a notebook? I can't decide. First I decided to write them out. Then I thought I'd just do them orally. Then I thought I'd use the narration as copywork. Now I'm back to thinking we'll do them orally. Make up my mind for me! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgehog Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 Sniff, my 6yo ds, does his questions/narrations orally; I write them down or type them. IMO he does enough writing for Language Arts so I don't ask for more writing in History. HTH! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rwjx2khsmj Posted March 17, 2012 Share Posted March 17, 2012 We do all the review questions and narration orally. Everyone takes turns answering and narrating. Dd12 does her outlines in her notebook. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 17, 2012 Share Posted March 17, 2012 (edited) We do oral. I really like it and I agree that my ds does enough writing in all the other subjects, and I just want history to be fun at this point. (This is not to say that I never assign a writing assignment from history.) There are some questions that one will remember and not the other and sometimes neither remember. But, then there are the questions that spark great conversations. I am really enjoying SOTW. Edited March 17, 2012 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Academy Posted March 17, 2012 Share Posted March 17, 2012 We did them orally until recently; I've just begun assigning written summaries for some chapters/sections, but not all. This is for a late 4th grader for whom I'm trying to ramp up the writing. I think orally is *fine* though, and did it for several years that way! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boscopup Posted March 17, 2012 Share Posted March 17, 2012 I would expect a first grader to do it orally, and I think that's what SWB intends. Listen to her lecture on teaching writing in the elementary years to get the big picture on that. You could write/type the narration and use one sentence of it as copywork. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craftymama Posted March 17, 2012 Share Posted March 17, 2012 I write them down and put them in a notebook, but we have a portfolio review so I need the documentation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happyhomemaker Posted March 17, 2012 Share Posted March 17, 2012 I generally ask the questions to both kids and one will jump in with the answer. If I notice that one kid is giving all the answers, I might direct one or two specifically to the other kid. After answering the questions, I ask my first grader to give me a sentence about something he remembers from the passage (just like his WWE narrations). I write it in his notebook. My fourth grader writes her own narration (usually 4 sentences or so). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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