Writer of the Week

Elizabeth won't begin Classical Writing until third grade, but we are doing preparatory work by utilizing narrations, copywork, and dictation as described in The Complete Writer: Writing With Ease by Susan Wise Bauer. (The Well-Trained Mind was co-written by Susan and her mother, Jessie Wise; it also advocates and descibes using narration, copywork, and dictation with young students.)

Elizabeth's reading program, ABeCeDarian, has had her reading Aesop's fables recently. For her writing assignment this week, she narrated the story of The Fox and the Goat to me while I wrote it down for her. She then copied her narration.

The Fox and the Goat

narrated and copied by Elizabeth (age 7)