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Simply Charlotte Mason says that after a student is comfortable writing words from memory, the student moves to dictation: preparing a whole passage and writing it all at once as the teacher dictates it.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“After the student feels comfortable studying and writing words from memory, he graduates to preparing the entire passage and writing it all at once as the teacher dictates it to him.”
Copywork, Transcription, Dictation: Language Arts, part 7, Simply Charlotte Mason, Simply Charlotte Mason (blog), n.d., Dictation level.
Open the original- What it measures
- The student studies the passage ahead of time and must know how to spell every word, but does not have to memorize it. The teacher dictates phrase by phrase.
- What it does not show
- The grade range given by the source, grades 4 to 12, is its own recommendation.