What is Narration?

  Charlotte Mason's methods for one's language art skills were/are learned through narration, which consists of the child telling back a story, first orally, through picture drawings and later in written form; copywork, or the transcribing of a piece of literature. This method is done by keeping the child engaged through the use of thought provoking open-ended questions as the story progresses during a read aloud language lesson. 
Take time to pause and ask the child to re-tell what has happened so far or what they believe will happen next. Who is you favorite character so far? Would you have done the same as "so and so"? Tell me what has happened so far.  In doing so the child begins to from his or her own relationship with the characters and deeper connection to the story that is being told.  
This is also the perfect opportunity for vocabulary expansion. If you come across a new word in the text, take the time to either look up it's meaning or tell your child what it means and again have them re-tell it's meaning to you in their own words.

 Direct questions on the subject-matter of what a child has read are always a mistake. Let him narrate what he has read, or some part of it. He enjoys this sort of consecutive reproduction, but abominates every question in the nature of a riddle.
(Vol. 1 Part VIII--Reading for Older Children, p.228)

 As knowledge is not assimilated until it is reproduced, children should "tell back" after a single reading or hearing: or should write on some part of what they have read.
(Vol. 6, Chapter 10 The Curriculum, p. 155)

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My Favorite Charlotte Mason Quotes

• All beautiful and noble possibilities are present in everyone.
•  Great artists, whether they be poets or painters, builders or musicians, have the power of expressing and showing to the rest of us some part of the wonderful visions Imagination has revealed to them. But the reason why we enjoy their pictures, their poems, or their tales, is because Imagination does the same sort of thing for all of us, if in a less degree.
•  “Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must bear in mind that growth, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, is the sole end of education.”
  ― Charlotte Mason, The Original Home Schooling Series by Charlotte Mason 
•  “If mothers could learn to do for themselves what they do for their children when these are overdone, we should have happier households. Let the mother go out to play!                                                                                                       
  ― Charlotte Mason
•  “...my object is to show that the chief function of the child--his business in the world during the first six or seven years of his life--is to find out all he can, about whatever comes under his notice, by means of his five senses...”
  
  
•  “Let children alone... the education of habit is successful in so far as it enables the mother to let her children alone, not teasing them with perpetual commands and directions - a running fire of Do and Don’t ; but letting them go their own way and grow, having first secured that they will go the right way and grow to fruitful purpose.”
  ― Charlotte Mason