ORAL READING (ALMOST 6 YRS OLD)

S loves school but is such a procrastinator that it makes mama crazy getting her prepared for school!S had to do an oral storytelling at school yesterday. She had to retell the Russian folk story, A Little House. Mama read it to her and then she read it herself. Mama tried to get her to practice telling the story several times, but S refused, either saying she didn't want to or saying she wanted to do something else first. She even said once that she knew the story already.

Well, finally, yesterday, she had to do her oral story. When asked how she did last night, S said, "so-so." "What is so-so?," asked mama. "So-so is not good and not bad." "Well, what was good? and what was bad?," mama continued to ask. S explained she remembered all the characters but forgot the title of the story and forgot the little house was a jar.

S blamed it upon not having the storyboard she put together. Mama doesn't think the storyboard would have helped. Maybe some more practice?!!!