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...
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...
Narrations Are Varied and Build Skills
Narrations are so often thought of as only a retelling of what has just been read. This post is to demonstrate just how very creative...
Transitioning from Oral to Written Narrations
Moving a narrator from oral to written narrations should be a gentle crossover, with the skills and needs of the narrator always the...
A Charlotte Mason Narration
From the Parents' Review article "We Narrate and Then We Know" Do always prepare the passage carefully beforehand, thus making sure that...
Narration Misunderstandings Clarified
The following narration misunderstandings are addressed to demonstrate why the misunderstood idea would not develop the narrator, but the...