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Copywork, Transcription, Dictation: Language Arts, part 7
Simply Charlotte Mason, Simply Charlotte Mason (blog), n.d.
Read the originalRead on October 17, 2026
- What it is
- A homeschool-publisher blog post that gives a grade level, focus and description for copywork, transcription and dictation, as used in Charlotte Mason homeschooling.
- How much weight it carries
- A secondary, practitioner source from a company that sells Charlotte Mason homeschool materials. It is a clear summary of how the methods are commonly taught today, but it is not a primary text and its grade ranges are its own recommendations.
Facts taken from this source
- Simply Charlotte Mason describes copywork as giving the student a beautiful model of handwriting to copy, with the focus on handwriting at grades 1 and 2.
“Copywork is done by giving the student a beautiful model of handwriting to copy.” (Copywork level)
- 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.
“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.” (Dictation level)
- Simply Charlotte Mason describes transcription as the stage after handwriting mechanics, when the child starts to concentrate on the spelling of the passage being copied.
“Once the student has mastered the mechanics of handwriting, he can start making the transition to concentrating on the spelling of the passages he is copying.” (Transcription level)