MustardSeedsMum Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 This is probably obvious, but I'm stuck on the method of the narrative summary. Coming from a CM style - where the child is only allowed to read the work only once before narrating, I'm confused as to whether to allow the child to look at the passage they've just read when they're coming up with their phrases/short sentences. Could someone please enlighten me? :) Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodhaven Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Hummmm.... I've been allowing my boys to look at the passage while writing their phrases/short sentences. I haven't gone back to check with the book, but that's how my two do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsquirrel Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Well, in the instructions she tells them to go back and look at a particular section in order to answer a question or to illustrate a point etc. And it would be difficult to outline something if one only read it once. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodland Mist Academy Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Well, in the instructions she tells them to go back and look at a particular section in order to answer a question or to illustrate a point etc. And it would be difficult to outline something if one only read it once. :iagree: We treat our WWS work differently than our narrations in other subjects because the purpose is different. In other subjects she narrates after only one reading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MustardSeedsMum Posted April 20, 2012 Author Share Posted April 20, 2012 Thanks for the replies. Hilltop - that's a good reminder to treat WWS work differently from the other narrations. Writing has been a weakness around here - so this was totally paralyzing. :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewelma Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 When we started WWS, ds had no experience in summarizing (we had used IEW) and he was terrible at it. We actually quite WWS for 4 weeks and I bought WWE3 for him to do. We only did the summaries (not the dictation), and we did 1 week (2 summaries) every day for 20 days. Once he got the hang of it, he asked to stop WWE, and we moved back to WWS. It has been a very appropriate level for him ever since. HTH, Ruth in NZ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MustardSeedsMum Posted April 20, 2012 Author Share Posted April 20, 2012 When we started WWS, ds had no experience in summarizing (we had used IEW) and he was terrible at it. We actually quite WWS for 4 weeks and I bought WWE3 for him to do. We only did the summaries (not the dictation), and we did 1 week (2 summaries) every day for 20 days. Once he got the hang of it, he asked to stop WWE, and we moved back to WWS. It has been a very appropriate level for him ever since. HTH, Ruth in NZ Ruth, is there any reason why you used WWE3 and not WWE4? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewelma Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 (edited) Ruth, is there any reason why you used WWE3 and not WWE4? Mostly because my younger son at the time was working on WWE2, and I was not sure that I would be ever using WWE4 with him because of the very long dictations. So I bought WWE3 so I could use it with 2 kids. Ends up, that younger did not like WWE at all and we have moved to IEW. :001_smile: I really could have had him do summaries with anything he read, but it was just very tidy and organized to use WWE, and he really enjoyed comparing his summaries to the example summaries in the teacher's book. Help me to be objective in my expectations. Ruth in NZ Edited April 20, 2012 by lewelma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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