My daughter (8yrs old) is busy reading to my son (10yrs old) the passage for his dictation. He enjoys dictation.

Dictation at Charlotte Mason’s schools was usually scheduled once or twice a week; and prepared dictation only starts from 9, depends on the child ability to read.

(Charlotte Mason, Vol. 1, p. 238)- “Transcription should be an introduction to spelling. Children should be encouraged to look at the word, see a picture of it with their eyes shut, and then write from memory.

(Charlotte Mason, Vol. 1, p. 242) – “It also prepares them for the second condition of good spelling, which is much combined with the habit of imaging the words as they are read.”