Here is a list of narration jar ideas I have collected from other moms and other websites.

Draw a picture from your reading.

Let your animals or dolls act out the story.

Tell me everything you can remember about the reading.

Narrate to Mom.

Tell me the story back in your own words.

Write down five sentences about what you read.

Answer questions Mom asks about the reading.

Play dice narration game.

Ask Mom questions about the reading.

Think about another story or even that reminds you of what you just read about. Tell
Mom about it.

If you were giving a test on this reading, what are three questions you would ask?

Write down three sentences about what you read.

Draw a portrait and give a brief description of a person or character

in the reading.

Skip the narration today.

Mom narrates today!

Draw and label a map based on the reading.

Tell me how someone in the reading behaved.

Find and define two new or important words from the reading.

Write a letter about the story. Pretend you are one of the characters.

Tell about two important facts or events from the reading.

Model something out of play-dough while you tell me the story.

Copy two important or interesting quotations from the reading.

Draw a character or person from the reading and describe his or her personality and give
examples from the reading.

Copy two interesting quotations from the reading. Give explanation as to why you chose
the quotations.

Create a banner or poster and explain.

Use play doh to model something related to the reading.

Draw a character from the reading and write a short description.

If you were to give a test on the reading what three questions would you ask?

Create a short comic strip.

Write a letter from one character to another character in the reading.

Make a short puppet show out of a scene from the reading.

Act out a short skit based on the reading.

Write down two sentences about the reading.

Make scene from the book out of legos.

Compare and contrast a character in the book to yourself.

Determine what a character would have written in his or her diary from your reading and
write a diary page from the perspective.

Define at least two new words from the reading either orally or on paper.

Find a biblical truth in the reading.

Write down two important events in the reading.

Write or give orally a prediction of what will happen next in the story.

Tell or write what you would do if you were a character in the story.
Draw and label a map based on the reading.

Copy two important or interesting quotations from the reading.

Draw a portrait and write a short description of a person or character in the reading.

Write two important facts or events from the reading.

Tell me how someone in the reading behaved.

Find and define two new or important words from the reading.

Create a short comic strip based on the reading

Imitate an art or craft mentioned in the reading.

Give an oral narration.

Write a letter from the point-of-view of a person in the reading.

Create a poster related to the reading.

Act out events in the reading.

Draw a picture from your reading.

Set up a scene from the story with your blocks.

Model something from the story using Play-dough

Narrate into the tape recorder.

Narrate to Mama.

Write down two sentences about what you read.

Think about another story or even that reminds you of what you just read about. Tell
Mama about it

Write down two sentences about what you read.

You have 10 minutes to plan a short skit from what you read.

If you were giving a test on this reading, what are three questions you would ask?
Skip the narration today.

1. Draw a picture about the reading and explain it to the teacher..

2. Draw a character or person from the reading and describe his or her
personality and give examples from the reading.

3. Copy two interesting quotations from the reading. Give explanation as to why
you chose the quotations.

4. Create a banner or poster and explain.

5. Use play doh to model something related to the reading.

6. Draw a character from the reading and write a short description.

7. If you were to give a test on the reading what three questions would you ask?

8. Create a short comic strip.

9. Write a letter from one character to another character in the reading.

10. Make a short puppet show out of a scene from the reading.

11. Act out a short skit based on the reading.

12. Write down two sentences about the reading.

13. Make scene from the book out of legos.

14. Compare and contrast a character in the book to yourself.

15. Determine what a character would have written in his or her diary from your
reading and write a diary page from the perspective.

16. Define at least two new words from the reading either orally or on paper.

17. Find a biblical truth in the reading.

18. Write down two important events in the reading.

19. Write or give orally a prediction of what will happen next in the story.

20. Write or tell what you would do if you were a character in the reading.
Narration Starters

What did I read?

Tell me the story back in your words.
Tell me what happened in order.
Tell me all you remember.
Tell me what you understood.
Tell me four/five things you learned from this page/chapter.
What do you think about ____?
Why did _____ ?
How is this page/chapter/story like ____(another page/chapter/story read earlier)?
Do you agree with ____ (an action, quote, or concept from the reading)?
Describe ____ (person).
Discuss how the main character is like or unlike people you know.
~ Design a book cover for your story/book.
~ Draw a comic strip of your story.
~ Make a "WANTED" poster for the main character.
~ Invite one character to dinner and write a note of explanation to your mother.
~ Write ten discussion questions for your story.
~ Draw a portrait of your favorite character and explain something about it..
~ Explain what the main character would prefer to wear and why.
~ Explain what the main character would prefer for dinner and why.
~ Cut words and/or pictures from the newspaper or magazines to make a collage or
ad for your story or book.
~ Make any kind of illustration for your story (drawing, chart, graph,) and
explain it.
~ Explain where the main character would prefer to vacation and why.
~ Compare two of the characters in your story.
~ Describe an experience you've had that was like the experience of a character
in your story.
~ Write out your title decoratively and for each letter write a phrase about the
story.
~ Make an acrostic poem out of the main character's name.
~ Make an acrostic poem out of the title of the chapter/story.
~ If you were a man/woman from Mars, how would you react to your story?
~ Explain what the main character would prefer for Christmas and why.
~ Draw the setting of your story and explain it.
~ Invite three celebrities to a party for the main character and explain your
choice.
~ Recast the main characters of your story with your own friends, who would play
the parts and why?
~ Name five things you enjoyed about the story and five things you didn't care
for.
~ Write a song about your story.
~ Create a piece of music to accompany your story if it were made into a movie.
Compare and contrast a practice in the account you read with a similar practice in modern
society (for example, the feudal system
vs. free enterprise; or infanticide in Rome vs. abortion today).
Compare and contrast two or three rulers read about who lived during the same time
period or in the same country. Which one would you rather live under and why?
Tell how the scene reminds you of another story.
Say three questions you would ask if you were writing a test about what you just read.
Play the part of the person you read about as he or she is being interviewed.
Explain what this story tells you about the character of the person you read about.
Write an outline of the reading or a notes narration with key points and names to use for
an oral retelling or discussion preparation.
Tell me anything new you learned from the passage.
Name three things the person you read about is remembered for.
Tell all you know about . . . (for example, the habits of a bluejay or the founding of
Rome).
Tell what may happen next and why.
Describe the problem and how it was solved or how it could be solved.
Describe our . . . (for example, trip to the ocean or lighthouse experience).
Tell five things you learned from what you read.
Describe the problem and how it was solved or how it could be solved.
Make a display page for this reading.
Tell back the story in your own words.
Ask five questions covering the material you read
(For Picture Study) Describe the picture you just saw in terms of color, form and medium
used.
(For Picture Study) Which picture did you like best of all you studied? Describe it.
Artifact Study – describe the artifact, where it came from, when, and how it was used….
Or you can draw or model it.
Describe your favorite scene in the story you read.
Tell what you think this means: “. . .”
Describe a character’s worldview.
Compare it to a Biblical worldview.
Tell how you might have done things differently as a character.
Look up or discuss a side point in the book that comes up as a question.
Compare how people did things back in those days to how we do them today.
Trace the consequences of the person's actions… how cause leads to effect.
Describe any clues left by the author in previous readings pointing to the plot twist.
Tell what you have learned about history, geography, or science from this book.
Tell about what the author's intention seems to be considering how the story is going.
Describe any golden deeds from this book.
..
Apply the situation in the book to one from real life or from another story..
Write five questions covering the material you read.
Rewrite the story in a different time or place.
Write five sentences about the passage.
Choose some vocabulary words and make into a board game or computer quiz.
Make a fill-in-the-blank quiz (oral or written) about the story for someone..
Write a poem that retells the story you read about, or translate the poem into prose
narrative..
Narrate mentally – spend a couple of minutes after reading thinking about the reading.
List 5 things you learned from the reading.
Tell what the main idea was or choose a
quote that seems to encapsulate a major
idea.
Draw a diagram of a machine or series of events you read about and explain it.
One Small Step – summarize one paragraph at a time
as you read it.
Draw a picture of the event or one particular scene in the event you read about.
Choose a key scene and change it and describe what might happen differently as a result.
Draw, or color and label, a map of the place you just read about.
Choose a study question to answer in writing or in words.
(For Music Study) Draw a picture of what you hear in this composer’s music.
Write a review of the book or journal your response.
(For Picture Study) Draw the basic components of this artist’s work, putting each in its
proper place.
Describe how you would adapt the scene to a movie.
Describe and/or draw a game based upon this book.
Tell or write a story of your own set in this time and place.
Draw or paint a scene from this book or design the book's cover.
Make a page for a century book based on this reading. Look for at least one other source
for the information.
Cook something or make something from the reading, or something that is related to the
reading.
Make a model of a machine you read about and explain how it works (for example, the
Trojan horse or Archimedes’ stone-throwing machine).
Model something from the scene with clay.
Set up the scene you just read about with blocks, toys, Legos, etc.