Another listener requested episode for you this week! Mindy & Rachel think there is one educational tool that brings the biggest bang for your buck and … it’s FREE! Aubree asked for us to delve into narration and we were happy to oblige!

1:45 Homeschooling Moment of the Week: Mindy (PL knowing where Ukraine is and discussing current events)

2:00 S2E30 How to Reboot Your Day

3:30 HSMotW: Rachel (learning where Ukraine is having conversations about current events)

4:40 Topic Talk: Narration

5:05 Definition of narration

6:24 Use at any age

6:32 History of use in education

7:15 Why it is useful

8:00 How to do it

9:17 Use in special education, calling it narrative instruction

14:00 Charlotte Mason’s goals

14:11 John Locke’s goals

14:20 Comenius’ goals

15:07 The hardest part of narration for Mindy

15:52 The hardest part of narration for Rachel

16:32 Wild Kratts

19:08 It’s a gateway to conversations

19:22 Ways kids can do their narration

21:00 How to start

23:15 The more you do it, the more you benefit

27:04 Have your kids narrate where you left off in the read aloud before you start

29:03 Make It Personal: Far Bookend (have our high schoolers narrate and get a pass on writing)

29:47 Make It Personal: Near Bookend (make a commitment this week to do it once a day)

30:37 View from the (Near) Bookend: narration journals as a part of family life

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