A home for their hearts Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 where do you get your copywork and narration exercises from? I would love to just buy the workbooks so I don't have to worry about it but I can't afford to so I'm left to figure this out on my own. I would greatly appreciate any help! TIA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrothead Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 I get mine from our current reading book. I'll copy out a sentence or two and read from the book for narration. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free Indeed Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 I probably will not be much help, but I am just pulling passages from our read aloud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GailV Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 (edited) In Level 2 one of the examples used was a passage from 101 Dalmations. We had never read that book, so I got it out of the library and used passages from it for several weeks. I matched up the passages I found with what we were doing in FLL 3 (yes, we're in level 2 of WWE and level 3 of FLL -- just the way it worked out). For example, right now in FLL we're studying prepositional phrases, so I find a passage with a prepositional phrase for copywork and dicatation. We also read the book aloud. I find the passages for narration as we read -- sometimes I read ahead to help prepare. I was amazed at how easy-peasy this was. I'm saying this as a person who loathes planning ahead, and vastly prefers scripted lessons that I can mindlessly hand to my kids. Really, it was easy once I read through WWE and tried it for a week or 2. And my dd LOVED doing it this way. She loves having the WWE assignments match up with current reading. I am so glad I *couldn't* get the workbooks -- I'm so proud of myself for figuring out how to do this, and my child is enjoying it much more. Edited October 1, 2008 by GailV Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patricia in WA Posted October 2, 2008 Share Posted October 2, 2008 I have written a few posts with what we do on my blog. I have uploaded the workbook I made for ds for level 1. Feel free to take a look. HTHs, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jane Elliot Posted October 2, 2008 Share Posted October 2, 2008 We've done a lot with Favorite Medieval Tales by Mary Pope Osborne. It is highly recommended in SOTW 2 AG, which we are also using this year. The book has retellings from Beowulf, Sir Gawain, King Arthur, etc and each story is easy to break up into chunks. I love how easy WWE makes this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy loves Bud Posted October 2, 2008 Share Posted October 2, 2008 We're in Levels 3 and 4 here, so no workbooks, boo hoo. I just pull dictation from literature we are reading or I pull a book from the shelf and pick something. For narration, I have them narrate history or science. They are used to being asked questions about their history or science, and we've done narrations from those all along, so it's a natural place to go for us. Plus it's nice to incorporate the writing into something we're already doing, rather than adding another piece to the day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moosemomma Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 For narrations I have used books at The Baldwin Project (http://www.mainlesson.com/main/displayarticle.php?article=christma ) Also, I sometime use a short passage with the current read-aloud book. For copywork - I use a portion of a narration one day. The second day I tried to find a sentence that fits with the week's schedule. But sometimes I cannot, like this week I could not find a sentence using sit or set, so I made one up. Jill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ummto4 Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 For narration, books by James Baldwin (50 famous stories, 50 famous people) are great. We use those books along with other old books for history and narration practice. In addition, my son also narrates AESOP, folklore, myth and other types of tales from his reader. In our home, we use old readers which contain a lot of fables, folklores and myths as our reading program. So my son reads the story and then do narration on that. For first grade, try ELSON reader by Elson, A Primary Reader by Smythe, and Summer reader by Maud Summer. Dian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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