The beauty of narration is that it can grow with your student.

Telling back in your own words what was read or heard or experienced is the foundational type of narration.

You can and should use it with all grade levels.

But you also can and should level it up as your student gains experience and is ready for more.

Here's how.

Welcome to the Simply Charlotte Mason podcast. I'm Sonia Schaefer.

In most instances, when you think of narration, you think of, tell me the story in your own

words.

And that's where it all begins.

But Charlotte Mason also asked for other kinds of narrations as the students advanced in

their skills and grade levels.

A narration does not have to be just tell me the story.

In grades 1 through 3, that was the kind of narration the students did. But once they reached

grades 4 through 6, another kind of narration was added to the lineup. They still retold

the story many times, but sometimes they would be asked to explain to the lineup. They still retold the story many times, but sometimes they would

be asked to explain how something worked. It really just depended on the passage that was read,

or the experience that they shared. For example, if you were reading the Swiss Family

Robinson with your fifth grade student, you might ask

him to tell you about the tree house that the Robinson's built, what it was like and how it worked.

Students in grade 7 through 9 had another expansion to their narration lineup. They continued

to retell the story or to explain how something worked,

depending on what the passage was about, but they also sometimes were asked to describe what

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