YMB #145 Flashback Narration How-tos with Sonya Shafer
Homeschool Better Together with Pam Barnhill
Pam Barnhill
4.9 • 683 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Join hosts Pam Barnhill and Dawn Garrett as they revisit a classic episode of "Your Morning Basket" with Sonya Shafer, a homeschooling veteran, speaker, and writer specializing in the Charlotte Mason style of education. In this flashback episode, Sonya shares valuable insights into the power of narration and its role in developing children's personalities and engagement with books. Listen for practical tips for implementing narration, the effectiveness of oral compositions, and the benefits of using living books to foster the imagination.
Key Takeaways About Narration:
- Learn how narration can engage children with books, develop their personalities, and enhance their oral composition, memory, and language skills.
- Understand the importance of grace for both parents and children as they navigate the learning process, emphasizing patience and trust.
- Explore the introduction of different types of narration, such as descriptive, expository, and persuasive, to students at various grade levels, and the stages of integrating these compositions into their education.
- Gain advice on encouraging children's narration skills without over-analyzing, to foster higher-level thinking and a love for storytelling and expression.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you ready for homeschooling to feel joyful again? |
| 0:08.3 | Do you want to build closer relationships? |
| 0:10.6 | Remove some of the stress around planning and enjoy learning with your children. |
| 0:15.3 | Welcome to your morning basket. |
| 0:17.3 | I'm Pam Barnhill, a homeschool mom just like you, |
| 0:20.2 | and I'm going to show you the magic and |
| 0:22.6 | fulfillment that morning basket or morning time can bring to your homeschool. |
| 0:27.1 | Grab your coffee or tea and let's get started. |
| 0:34.1 | Okay, so I am joined today by Don Garrett, our community manager over at your morning |
| 0:40.4 | Basket Plus, and we are doing something we have never done before. |
| 0:44.3 | I'm really actually excited about it because I think that some of these old catalog episodes |
| 0:50.4 | need more highlighting. |
| 0:52.9 | So I'm so thrilled that you were doing this. Oh, yeah. And so first |
| 0:56.9 | of all, I think it was your idea. I'm pretty sure it was your idea. But let's just go ahead. |
| 1:02.8 | Let's just go ahead and tell everybody exactly what it is we're doing. And that is we are |
| 1:06.9 | bringing old episodes kind of out of the archives, dusting them off and playing them again. |
| 1:14.1 | And so Don's right. I mean, we have over 130 Your Morning Basket episodes. And there are some that I |
| 1:21.7 | think have just, they just don't get the love that they deserve. And I think it's because we're |
| 1:26.6 | just as, as people're constantly moving forward and, |
| 1:30.6 | you know, we're just going to help bring some of these back because we do think that there |
| 1:34.3 | are some gems in there. |
| 1:35.4 | And that doesn't mean that the rest of them aren't good. |
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