Episode 330: Composition Part 3, Written Narration in Form 2
A Delectable Education Charlotte Mason Podcast
Nicole Williams
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🗓️ 27 February 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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How do we help our children learn to write down their thoughts? What should we expect as our students transition from oral to written narration? Join us today on the podcast as we look at composition in Form 2, grades 4 through 6.

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| 0:00.0 | How do we help our children learn to write down their thoughts? What should we expect as our students |
| 0:06.1 | transition from oral to written narration? Join us today on the podcast as we look at composition |
| 0:12.0 | in Form 2, grades 4 through 6. This episode is brought to you by Latte Iama. At Latte Iyama, |
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| 0:33.4 | Welcome to a July School Education, the podcast that spreads the fuse of the Charlotte Mason Method. |
| 0:38.1 | I'm Emily Kaiser and I'm here with Liz Ketrill and Nicole Williams. |
| 0:42.9 | Well, we don't give formal composition lessons or instruction in form 2. |
| 0:49.4 | The students are developing their skills all the same. |
| 0:52.9 | So Nicole, would you share what type of compositions they do at this level? |
| 0:57.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:58.4 | So they're still narrating every lesson, but some of those narrations are recorded in writing. |
| 1:05.1 | And it's the type of things that are changing at this time. |
| 1:10.0 | It's they're still narrating every |
| 1:14.6 | lesson let just be very clear there but um and it's still coming from all of their sources but now |
| 1:22.2 | they could be asked to write in verse sometimes a narration in in verse. In verse, yeah. |
| 1:27.5 | Like poetry. |
| 1:28.3 | Yes. |
| 1:29.6 | I would be very clear about that. |
| 1:32.0 | And sometimes even in the meter of a poem that they have been, like a poet that they've been |
| 1:37.7 | studying that term. |
| 1:38.5 | So it's not just any poem. |
| 1:40.2 | And just to note no formal poetry writing is taught. |
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