Charlotte Mason called narration and art, something that is inherent in every person that needs not to be taught.

But how can we help our child develop and hone their abilities to tell?

We'll be discussing this today as we look at composition in Form 1, grades 1 through 3.

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Welcome to a delightful education, the podcast that spreads the feast

of the Charlotte Mason Method. I'm Emily Kaiser and I'm here with Liz Katrille and Nicole Williams.

Well, last week we talked about Charlotte Mason's unique idea about composition that she didn't

believe in the formal teaching of composition until the last few years of high school.

But that doesn't mean that the children don't learn composition or have any growth or

development in their abilities. In fact, the essential groundwork of composition begins in

form one. So Nicole, will you remind us what that looks like? Yeah. So the central tool is narration, like you said,

after hearing a reading, whether from Bible, history, narration, I mean, sorry, literature,

geography, the child tells back in their own words. And these narrations are oral in the early

years and they are the first exercise in composition.

They are gathering ideas.

They are ordering the things in their mind.

And then they're choosing words to express it clearly.

So there's a whole lot going on there.

Children in third grade who have the ability to do so can even start making a single narration

each week or narrating part of the narration and then do you mean in writing i'm sorry yes so

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