Teaching ideas and facts Give the facts from living books, nature, and humanities. Copy work, dictation, adding to a nature notebook or time line. Integrating new learning into real life. This is a perfect activity, and one which you will find frequently in the third step of the 4Mat System. Miss Mason found that if you use narration consistently, review is unnecessary.
Narration increases the mind's ability to remember.
Copy Work and Dictation Copy work and dictation are underrated. Both provide on-going practice for handwriting, spelling, grammar, etc. Both are good exercises for teaching accuracy and attention to detail, and students discover things about the text they are copying that they would be unlikely to notice otherwise. In dictation, the parent reads as the child writes. Students learn correct spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and other language mechanics when they compare their work to the original and correct mistakes.