brett_ashley Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 cross-posted from k-8 board to try and get some responses. Ok--to preface. I'm on the curricula team for a Christian, Classical, university-style school. We have used WWE since our inception two years ago and like it. It's great, with a few caveats: children who find it difficult to narrate are finding it extremely difficult to narrate a short passage without any significant context, and we are finding that our homeschool parents are not applying these narration skills to the other read-alouds (Bible, history, other literature). So we are thinking of ditching the workbooks and taking the WWE textbook and applying those narration teaching techniques to our currently-existing literature selections. The main problems I can see with this are: the time it would take to choose selections and write comprehension questions, some students find it difficult to summarize a single passage when they are familiar with the whole body of work, and WWE workbooks do expose them to a huge variety of great literature (albeit briefly). Any thoughts? I'm also looking for research that proves that narration/dictation is working v free writing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shellydon Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 How do you implement WWE in a group setting. Is each child given 10 minutes one-one-one with a teacher, or is it done as group? I am having a hard time picturing this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brett_ashley Posted January 30, 2013 Author Share Posted January 30, 2013 the kids are in school Tues Thursday and do copywork and dication. They are homeschooled Monday Wed Fri where they do their narration and summaries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shellydon Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Ah, I see. Children that find it difficult to narrate need the practice the most with the short passage, IMO. The Well Trained Mind suggests applying the narration techniques (for younger grades "What happened?") to history. If the school is not already doing this, that would be a natural extension of WWE. There is no way to force parents to do what they are supposed to do, so if they are not already doing narration at home with history, then the structure of WWE is important. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brett_ashley Posted January 31, 2013 Author Share Posted January 31, 2013 I may not have made myself clear. We would still be using the framework of WWE (dictation, copywork, narration, and summaries), but instead of doing it on snippets from 30 or so different books (as the WWE workbooks do) we would do it ourselves on the things we are already reading (like history). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shellydon Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Right. I understood. It is my opinion that you should do both the WWE books AND narration, copy work etc. from history/literature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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