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Fyi, she is 16 and extremely learning challenged.
This is our first year doing narration, and I still do not quite understand the difference between a narration and a summary. I think I have read dozens of explanations on these boards, but my brain still does not compute it.Written narrations are not the same thing as summaries, which is why every student's should look different.
Oh no! Don't be so hard on yourself!Gwenny wrote:...This shows I'm not doing my job,but I checked her independent science the other day (after weeks). She is supposed to do copy work from Draw and Write Through History, and they usually say "copy paragraph 1 from pg. such and such". She has been doing it, but only SENTENCE 1 from either paragraph 1 or 2. Oops! She's probably bummed that I found that, 1 sentence is sure not much copy work...
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Julie, you saidThis is our first year doing narration, and I still do not quite understand the difference between a narration and a summary. I think I have read dozens of explanations on these boards, but my brain still does not compute it.Written narrations are not the same thing as summaries, which is why every student's should look different.I think that my ds in Preparing probably does more of a summary than narration, but I am not quite clear. If he is, how do I correct that? He always wants his written narrations (again...summaries?) to be longer than the "allowed" number of sentences. When I point this out, I usually wind up with many run-on sentences to include the information he wants to. When I read them, it seems to me that he has not included any "unimportant" information, so I am not sure how to help. Can someone please try once more to help me understand??
Thank you!!!
CELEBRATE!Gwenny wrote:She did the written narration for unit 10 today. It went SO much better! She did great. We read the whole passage, she read the portion the guide tells her to read, and then we answered all of the questions orally. I sent her with the 1st sentence opener and didn't let her have the guide to look at the questions. It was exactly what it should be. I had to correct some spellings and one little portion that wasn't accurate from the text, but overall it was a huge improvement.
Thanks for your help!