Episode 48: Writing: Copywork, Dictation, and Written Narration

A Delectable Education Charlotte Mason Podcast

Nicole Williams

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🗓️ 30 September 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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This podcast explores what Charlotte Mason had to say about the skill of writing. Why do the children need to write? What writing must they do? How can they be taught penmanship, spelling, punctuation, and style? Join us in working through this incremental and crucial school subject.

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"I can only offer a few hints on the teaching of writing, though much might be said. First, let the child accomplish something perfectly in every lesson--a stroke, a pothook, a letter. Let the writing lesson be short; it should not last more than five or ten minutes. Ease in writing comes by practice; but that must be secured later. In the meantime, the thing to be avoided is the habit of careless work." (Vol. 1, pp. 233-34)

"[T]here is no part of a child's work at school which some philosophic principle does not underlie." (Vol. 1, p. 240)

"The gift of spelling depends upon the power the eye possesses to 'take' (in a photographic sense) a detailed picture of a word; and this is a power and habit which must be cultivated in children from the first." (Vol. 1, p. 241)

If you would like to study along with us, here are some passages from The Home Education Series and other Parent's Review articles that would be helpful for this episode's topic. You may also read the series online here, or get the free Kindle version from Fisher Academy.

Home Education (Volume 1), Part V, Chapters X-XII

Writing to Learn

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The New Handwriting

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1:36.2	Charlotte Mason method. I'm Emily Kaiser and as always I'm here with Liz
1:40.6	Kottrill and Nicole Williams.
1:43.1	This is episode 48.
1:45.6	And today we're going to be talking about writing.
1:48.3	All the writing that goes on in a Charlotte Mason education.
1:51.7	So we've been following the path of language acquisition that is developmentally the stages
1:56.6	that every person goes through, first hearing language with their ear and then learning to
2:01.8	speak language through their mouth and then learning to speak language through their mouth and then
2:04.0	taking language in through their eye and this subject today is the last step
2:09.6	putting language out with our hand.
2:14.0	Mom, why don't you get us started and tell us why we need to write in the first place?
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