Narration's Many Faces
Narration has another side to it that is often neglected. While we are always quick to note that narration involves the act of reading...
Art and Music Technique
Printable Copy of this Post Music Technique Formal lessons with an instrument are a great way to achieve good music technique and theory,...
Art Begins With the Very Young
Emeline Petrie Steinthal tells us how art training begins even in the very little. In “Art Training in the Nursery”, Steinthal explains...
Will This Curriculum Prepare My Student for College Level Writing?
My older daughter is currently a sophomore at our local state college. She's a humanities major (English and History), so she is doing...
Learning Languages
How did Charlotte Mason approach the teaching of foreign languages? How did this look in a general scope and sequence? To what main...
A Writer Blooms from Narration
For those of you with younger children, or those who are relatively new to the ideas and principles behind this educational method, you...
Writing Scaffolds: Summarizing
Contrary to the commonly held idea that Charlotte Mason style narrations are not summary style narrations, they can be and in this...
Alleviating Narration Issues
This post is an expansion on "Meanings and Perspectives of Narration". Generally, children who dislike narration do so for reasons such...
Meanings and Perspectives of Narration
Narration: Various Meanings Narration: This one word is significant to those who are educators. A narration has different meanings for...
The Art of Narrating
"Narrating is an art, like poetry-making or painting, because it is there, in every child’s mind, waiting to be discovered, and is not...
