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“Scientists have long known that human beings are storytelling creatures. For centuries, we have told stories to transmit information, share histories, and teach important lessons. While stories often have a profound effect on us due to emotional content, recent research also shows that our brains are actually hard-wired to seek out a coherent narrative structure in the stories we hear and tell. This structure helps us absorb the information in a story, and connect it with our own experiences in the world.” Scientific Learning. (2012, June 14). Using Stories to Teach: How Narrative Structure Helps Students Learn [Blog post]. Retrieved from http://34.211.105.222/blog/using-stories-teach-how-narrative-structure-helps-students-learn
12 Lessons to Begin Using the Story Grammar Marker®
Tool Tuesday: Create a Halloween (or Other) Story Song
Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools are becoming more prevalent, powerful, and integrated in our daily lives. While this is on some level SPOOKY, given the tasks they can perform as well as the potential for abuse, they offer amazing opportunities to create with our students if used carefully. The creative power stems from the relatively recent dawn of “Generative” AI, which can compose materials in the form of text, images (previously discussed here and here) or even music, the topic of today’s post...
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Tool Tuesday: ReVISITING Google Earth
With the school year back in full swing, our posts will resume highlighting simple tools, tech or non-tech, that we can use to teach about narrative and expository language in conjunction with MindWing’s methodology. In the past, I have highlighted the now-simpler Google Earth and wanted to revisit this topic in the light of some recent sessions I have had with students. Though Google Earth initially was a complicated downloadable application, it has evolved into a web version accessible by simply navigating to it in your browser (earth.google.com).
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Tool Tuesday: Summer Study Series Part 4—“A Recent Look at Evidence-Based Expository Intervention”
In this 4th and final entry in the Summer Study Series for 2024, we will circle back to the expository side of language. Teresa Ukrainetz has always been one of my go-to experts on a number of aspects of discourse, and literally wrote the book on “Conceptualized Language Intervention.” It was with some excitement that I discovered her recent article, “Evidence-Based Expository Intervention: A Tutorial for Speech-Language Pathologists” (2024).
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Tool Tuesday: Summer Study Series Part 3—Considering Narrative and Neurodiversity
With this 3rd entry in 2024’s Summer Study Series, we look at a recent article that promotes neurodiversity-affirming approaches and how narrative language intervention fits within this recent topic. To offer a simplification, the neurodiversity movement has emerged in recent years as autistic individuals aged toward adulthood. Social media in particular has given autistic culture an amplified voice, and this population has expressed opinions about their educational experiences and what has been helpful, and in some cases, harmful to them...
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