Kimmie R's List: language arts

• Since it is quite difficult to fake a narration, the child must pay attention to the lesson.
• Narration is also a foundation for good writing skills.
• Acting Out Narrations

  • These would work WONDERFULLY for Anberly and Matthew -- especially Matthew, I think, since he has the most trouble with writing right now.
• These activities are especially good for young students, for kinesthetic learners, or for those whose fine motor skills make writing a chore
• Consider taking photographs of the acting out. Then assemble the photos in order and print them for a record of the narration

  • Would be perfect for our h/s portfolio!
• The parent and child can alternate taking the part of character and an interviewer. The questions and answers will reflect the child's understanding of the material

  • I think the kids would really enjoy interviewing -- and it will really help with their speaking skills.
• Make a diorama.
• Make a mobile
• Make an illustrated timeline of the events
• For an older learner, design a board game complete with board, playing pieces, cards, questions, even money!
• Make a salt dough map of the area covered in your lesson. Remember that fictional areas can also be mapped!
• lapbooking can be a very effective form of narration.
• If the child has a great amount of ownership in the creation of the minibooks, without too much direction from an adult, then they can be a good reflection of his understanding.
   
   Just as you ask your child a starter question for a verbal narration, you can make a request for a mini-book:
• Make a mini-book that lists the events we just read about.
• Notebooking can be very versatile and include a child's own perspective on the lesson. Besides the text written by the child, consider including drawings, photographs, postcards, recipes, newspaper clippings, lists, maps, papercrafts, and brochures. You may also consider a commonplace book, a variation of notebooking
• After several narrations are made in different mini-books, those are gathered together into a lapbook that will be kept and looked at again and again
• Notebooking is an obvious choice for written narrations
• The Charlotte Mason Educational Review
• skip ahead (or patiently plod through) to pp. 14-17 where the Six Steps of the Narration Sequence are described. These are great how-to's for effective narration!

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