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for our newsletter, Katie’s Homeschool Cottage.) This week’s
focus is on narration, Charlotte Mason’s art of narration to be
more specific. When I first heard of the word narration before I
started using Charlotte Mason’s methods in my homeschooling, I
would have an image in my head of a child standing by a desk at
the teacher’s request, reciting answers to questions of a
homework assignment while the teacher looked on with a stern
manner. Today, I picture my children and I lounging on our sofas
in our livingroom reviewing what we last read, reading our next
chapter in our “living book” selection, and then my children
relating to me with their own personal versions of what we just
finished reading. I much prefer this second picture. Narration
has now become my favorite part of our school day, aside from
just reading together. There are two forms of narration we will
focus on – oral an