lulubelle Posted June 17, 2012 Share Posted June 17, 2012 The child does not need to say the dictation back verbatim!!!! Such a great relief! It is the ability to hold complete thoughts in your head and write them down in complete thoughts. The child may substitute a word that is similar!!!! Life is going to be a bit calmer here during WWE dictation time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracy Posted June 18, 2012 Share Posted June 18, 2012 The child does not need to say the dictation back verbatim!!!! Such a great relief! It is the ability to hold complete thoughts in your head and write them down in complete thoughts. The child may substitute a word that is similar!!!! Life is going to be a bit calmer here during WWE dictation time. Thank you for sharing this, because we are just going to start WWE2, and I have been thinking this might be a problem. Dd7 does this even when she reads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ecclecticmum Posted June 18, 2012 Share Posted June 18, 2012 Wow. I never really do that anyway LOL. I think I would go insane if I had to correct every single word as per the "original". I actually prefer the child give the story back to me in their own words and phrasing, this allows me to know they got the "gist" of the story, and for corrections that they may use in their own speech. As long as they pick up the main point of the story, I'm happy. Its not exactly as per WTM, but elsewise I don't know whether they understood or are just "parroting" (which is good for some areas, but bad IMO for others). We love WWE here. Adding: We also use FLL and GWG, so we take a little time out for her to spot grammar usage in the story, and why its there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightly Salted Posted June 19, 2012 Share Posted June 19, 2012 The child does not need to say the dictation back verbatim!!!! Such a great relief! It is the ability to hold complete thoughts in your head and write them down in complete thoughts. The child may substitute a word that is similar!!!! Life is going to be a bit calmer here during WWE dictation time. Ah, what a helpful thing to know! :D Many times I get a similar word, I wonder if it's worth the battle to correct to 'perfect' so I appreciate you sharing this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloggermom Posted June 19, 2012 Share Posted June 19, 2012 I never knew that! We always had them repeat every single word when doing Writing With Ease. My poor kids! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3peasinapod Posted June 19, 2012 Share Posted June 19, 2012 About 3/4 of the way through this past year, I just stopped correcting them. It meant the same thing, and we were so frustrated. I'm glad I'm not messing up something by doing this. Now, about dictating one sentence at a time instead of all of them? Both of our DDs can dictate a whole sentence, and once in a while can do all 2 or 3 sentences at once, but that is a struggle. I do it sentence by sentence. Am I horrible? :001_huh: :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudoMom Posted June 19, 2012 Share Posted June 19, 2012 The child does not need to say the dictation back verbatim!!!! Such a great relief! It is the ability to hold complete thoughts in your head and write them down in complete thoughts. The child may substitute a word that is similar!!!! Life is going to be a bit calmer here during WWE dictation time. Where was this tidbit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazyforlatin Posted June 19, 2012 Share Posted June 19, 2012 With some sentences from certain books, I would be wiling to let go, but I've been using LOTR for dictation recently, and I would have an extremely hard time having a word replaced or a word moved to another location in the sentence. We played around with the sentence structure, even using different words, but even DD admits some of those words in LOTR should not be changed or moved around. But I understand the skill that is built with dictation exercises, so an overall relaxed approach is welcome news. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lulubelle Posted June 19, 2012 Author Share Posted June 19, 2012 It came straight from the source!!!! SWB! My husband asked the question at the Hartford Convention. Thank you SWB! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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