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Problems at the discourse level of language development are evident when students experience difficulties using language to think, communicate, and/or learn. Our goal is to give children – regardless of age, gender, ability, race, gender, socioeconomic status, or culture – the literacy skills, problem solving skills, and communicative competence to be successful in school and in life.
By providing professional development training and materials for teachers, parents and specialists, MindWing Concepts helps children:
The Story Grammar Marker® Approach and related focus areas are designed to link language to literacy by targeting “discourse development” (conversation, narratives, and expository text) through use of engaging, hands-on, multi-sensory tools and colorful, distinctive icons.
Implementation of this Approach and instructional materials in the home, clinic, school, district, state, or at the national level supports children in making the progress in essential academic, social, and personal areas. Ultimately, we want to help children become literate, confident, healthy, independent, empathetic, happy people in their homes, schools, their communities and workplaces, and in their interpersonal relationships.
$ 79.95
This set is an even more advanced set for those professionals who want to focus on deepening discourse and social learning with their students using online videos specifically chosen for this purpose. The YouCue Feelings book is a guide to using specific online videos and activities for this purpose. This set includes an expanded group of SGM® tools as well as the Critical Thinking Triangle® In Action! Set. This combination of instruction, activities and materials will help in identifying social cognition and narrative thought concepts in specific online videos and enable use of SGM® tools to analyze the story/social situation.
Using the Critical Thinking Triangle In Action! Set with the online videos can help teach perspective-taking of characters, problem solving and how to build complex language. Incorporating the videos with the SGM® materials will help students to deconstruct characters and personal mental states and thoughts as well as practicing with “mental” dialogue with the videos.
YouCue Feelings guides students in thinking about, talking about, and ultimately, practicing important social learning ideas in their everyday lives.
Prod. No. 03 303G
$ 54.95
This advanced set is appropriate for those who are experienced with using Story Grammar Marker® tools and methodology and ready to apply it to online videos and animations IN DEPTH. The Critical Thinking Triangle in Action! Set provides a hands-on way to dive deep into the elements of character/interpersonal motivations, perspective taking, problem solving, emotions, feelings, mental states, and plans. YouCue Feelings gives you 25 links to online videos with accompanying social learning activities to also use with the Critical Thinking Triangle® in Action! materials. Also included are 41 high-quality, full-color Story Grammar Marker® digital images and icons for using the methodology in both distance learning platforms and for creating custom materials for mapping narrative elements.
YouCue Feelings guides students in thinking about, talking about, and ultimately, practicing important social learning ideas in their everyday lives.
Prod. No. 03 302G
$ 29.95
Get started immediately with these basic materials! This Starter Kit is appropriate for those who are new to YouCue Feelings, Story Grammar Marker® – or both! The YouCue Feelings book gives you 25 links to online videos with accompanying social learning activities, a Story Grammar Marker® Manipulative for modeling and giving students the hands-on connection to the narrative (story) elements of the video, 41 high quality, full color, digital Story Grammar Marker® Icons for use in both distance learning platforms and for creating custom materials for mapping the narrative elements, and the Critical Thinking Triangle® Mini Poster to model and talk about kick-offs, feelings, mental states (thoughts), and plans.
YouCue Feelings guides students in thinking about, talking about, and ultimately, practicing important social learning ideas in their everyday lives.
Prod. No. 03 301G
$ 18.00
YouCue Feelings: Using Online Videos for Social Learning by Anna Vagin, PhD is a 90-page book for use with children 4-14 years old. It utilizes the engaging material of online videos to make learning about feelings and relationships easy and fun. It can support elementary and middle school students in building their emotional vocabulary, tracking changes in feelings over time, and increasing their ability to reflect on their own emotional experiences.
YouCue Feelings guides students in thinking about, talking about, and ultimately, practicing important social learning ideas in their everyday lives.
Prod. No. 10 600
$ 49.95
You can put together 12 packets of hands-on home resources to give 12 different students/clients* with the tools in this set. They can use these hands-on resources while you provide distance learning services in the area of narrative discourse. In addition, parents and family members can use the resources to reinforce these concepts by giving them a framework for talking about, reading to, or telling a story with their children.
* This set gives you enough materials to give resources to 12 students/clients and the cost is roughly $4 per family.
Although none of us is able to physically be in school, every teacher, SLP, specialist and parent has this same goal: to increase academic and social learning now and going forward! Language development and social understanding grow most rapidly in children’s early years, and we do not want our very young students’ or clients’ growth to slow during this COVID19 shutdown time and during the summer months. As teachers and clinicians, we can use Braidy® via telepractice and distance learning to work on interactive play, problem solving, routines, expository discourse, identifying emotions, listening comprehension and so much more.
You can put together 12 packets of hands-on home resources to give 12 different students/clients* with the tools in this set. They can use these hands-on resources while you provide distance learning services in the area of narrative discourse. In addition, parents and family members can use the resources to reinforce these concepts by giving them a framework for talking about, reading to, or telling a story with their children.
Prod. No. 01 300G
$ 14.95
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Narrative intervention, using the Story Grammar Marker® approach, simultaneously targets discourse, sentence level language construction and expansion (syntax and morphology) as well as vocabulary concerns! This simultaneous targeting serves to clarify and facilitate documentation. With the goal of improved language and communication skills, Narrative Assessment is one of the biggest bangs for your buck for tracking and documenting student progress.
In the current “Document! Document! Document!” environment, our tools are uniquely designed to support this documentation process. In this packet, we share a step-by-step procedure to track narrative samples with MindWing’s systematic and explicit progress monitors and graphs. It includes detailed instructions of DocHub.com and demonstrates how to analyze the MACRO- and Microstructure of a narrative.
This documentation process provides the service provider with a complete and professional procedure for sharing with colleagues, administrators and parents. Downloadable progress monitoring PDF forms are also included for use in DocHub.com or any annotation platform:
Item No. 04 033
$ 19.95
The Universal Digital Icons: Complete Set of Braidy®, SGM® and ThemeMaker® Images Set contains 127 high quality, colorful, icon images from MindWing Concepts’ narrative and expository text approach. This set can be used by professionals, parents, and students who have a range of ages and abilities in their students, clients or children and want access to all of the icons.
Although nothing truly replaces the “magic” of students holding the Story Grammar Marker® tool and other MindWing tools in their hands, these digital icons expand the use and flexibility of Braidy®’s, SGM®’s and ThemeMaker’s approach. Our SGM® iPad App is another a great way to use our icons on a digital platform. That being said, we also know that having the icons in this additional format will be helpful in other ways such as:
Thank you for respecting our trademarks, copyrights and intellectual property. Please refer to the download-file-included Usage Agreement for information about authorized use of the icons. You are allowed to download for 4 devices.
Contains Braidy®, SGM® and ThemeMaker® icons — 142 images within a Powerpoint file, ready to use or to copy into other programs.
$ 7.95
The Braidy The StoryBraid® Digital Icons Set of 40 high quality, color images is to be used by professionals, parents, and students to expand the use and flexibility of the Braidy® methodology for expository (information) text.
Nothing can replace the look and feel of our Braidy® Doll and other Briady tools in the hands of young children. However, we know that having the icons in this additional format will be helpful in:
Thank you for respecting our trademarks, copyrights and intellectual property. Please refer to the download-file-included Usage Agreement for information about authorized use of the icons. You are allowed to download for 4 devices.
$ 9.95
The Story Grammar Marker® Digital Icons Set of 41 high quality, color images is to be used by professionals, parents, and students to expand the use and flexibility of the SGM® methodology.
Although nothing truly replaces the “magic” of a student holding the Story Grammar Marker® tool in their hand, or using our other multi-sensory materials, our SGM® iPad App is a great way to use the SGM® on a digital platform. Even though the app is available, we know that having the icons in this additional format will be helpful in other ways such as:
Thank you for respecting our trademarks, copyrights and intellectual property. Please refer to the download-file-included Usage Agreement for information about authorized use of the icons. You are allowed to download for 4 devices.
$ 7.95
The ThemeMaker® Digital Icons Set of 44 high quality, color images is to be used by professionals, parents, and students to expand the use and flexibility of the ThemeMaker® methodology for expository (information) text.
Although nothing completely replaces our hands-on tools and manipulatives, our SGM® iPad App is a great way to use some of the ThemeMaker® icons (description, listing, sequence, cause/effect) on a digital platform. That being said, we also know that having the icons in this additional format will be helpful in other ways such as:
Thank you for respecting our trademarks, copyrights and intellectual property. Please refer to the download-file-included Usage Agreement for information about authorized use of the icons. You are allowed to download for 4 devices.
$ 139.95
Academic Conversations includes a set of conversational concepts that can be modeled and practiced to help all students engage in extended meaningful conversation about narrative or informational texts (Zweirs, 2011). The skills include the following:
Academic conversations are important oral language uses to develop the deep comprehension task of interpretation of the content of a story. This “group interpretation” and discussion results in content needed for ultimately writing about the character’s challenge/trouble or problem, and then, how the character ultimately deals with it and moves on in life.
This is a multifaceted language processing task which requires students to respond in an expository way: state a claim, elaborate, clarify, support own and add to others’ ideas, challenge perspectives, paraphrase (“I think you mean...”) and summarize.
Deepening Discourse and Thought is road map for using Story Grammar Marker® with a selection of quality children’s literature for in-depth analysis which is necessary for building the narrative and expository language competency necessary for academic conversations.
$ 29.95
This set includes Narrative and Expository Mini Magnets AND Stickers: (1) SGM® Mini Magnets, (25) SGM® Icons Stickers, (1) ThemeMaker® Magnetic Snaps!, (25) ThemeMaker® Sticker Snaps!
This new set includes 3 NEW items. You get the 4th item for FREE ($38 sold separately). These mini magnets and low tack, reusable stickers are for use in therapy, small group, individual work, paired work and in classroom settings.
Item No. 03 027
$ 78.85
Jump right into using the icons of the Story Grammar Marker® to tackle expository (information) text. The ThemeMaker® Manual explore the 7 expository text structures of description, list, sequence, cause/effect, problem/solution, compare/contrast and persuasion/argument. The ThemeMaker® Student Tool contains the SGM® Complete Episode, the Critical Thinking Triangle®, the 7 Expository Text Structures and Inferencing. To make text structures and their contents visible to learners, use our NEW SGM® Mini Magnet Set.
You are allowed to download the icons for 4 devices.
$ 99.95
This group of materials includes three of our best-selling and most foundational products. At conferences and conventions, colleagues ask, “What are the basic items I need to get started with Story Grammar Marker®?” This Story Grammar Marker® Quick Start is the answer. Get started TODAY!
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The Teacher Story Grammar Marker® is a 24-inch manipulative with removable patented icons. The marker is designed to assist education professionals in the instruction of narrative development to their students.
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Item No. 03 200
$ 89.95
Get started by focusing on Oral Language Development for young children in early childhood settings (PreK- 1st grade), using Braidy the StoryBraid®, an engaging way to help young children tell their own story and re-tell stories. The Braidy® Manual shares how to implement Braidy® using children’s literature, activities, drawing, maps for narrative development, transitions, conflict resolution, conversations, personal narratives and problem-solving.
Our Friend Braidy Interactive Poster is a motivating hands-on tool that appeals to early childhood education students. The iconic structure of Braidy scaffolds narrative and oral storytelling following the developmental sequence of language acquisition. Targeted lessons foster meaningful conversation skills, problem-solving, and comprehension for your youngest students! A must-have for early childhood educators!
Item No. 01 000-QStart
You are allowed to download the icons to 4 devices.
$ 9.95
Braidy the StoryBraid® empowers children with the ability to tell their stories! And, the Super Braidy® Superhero Cape provides a motivating way to develop your students’ (child’s) storytelling superpowers!
Communicative competence and confidence is essential for social-emotional learning, language processing, academic conversations, writing, argument, problem-solving, critical thinking and SO much more in school and in life.
This Super Braidy® Cape is a creative, engaging and exciting way to encourage and reward the use of Braidy® in therapy and in the classroom. This bright red and deep violet satin cape, fastened at the neck with Velcro, sports the “Super Braidy” crest across the back.
Included are 9 Lessons, a downloadable Super Braidy® Storytelling Certificate, downloadable Story Starter Cards and the lyrics to the vibrant, catchy The Braidy® Song that is available on CDBaby, GooglePlay, iTunes, or wherever you get your digital music. Empower your students with Super Braidy® Cape!
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HASKINS LABORATORIES at YALE UNIVERSITY used Braidy the StoryBraid® for the comprehension and expression module of a 4-year, US Office of Education Developmental Study on early literacy acquisition: “Students made an average of 1 year’s growth in reading skills after 45 hours of RtI instruction.” See Evidence-Based Research
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For the past several years in this space we have presented a “Summer Study Series” highlighting peer-reviewed articles and research relevant to narrative and expository assessment and intervention. For 2020, we begin with A Systematic Review of Academic Discourse Interventions for School-Aged Children With Language-Related Learning Disabilities (Peterson, Fox & Israelsen, 2020). Systematic reviews are a higher tier of research applying selection criteria and metrics to determine effect sizes of studies of particular types of interventions. In other words, a study of studies specific to narrative and expository (more the latter) discourse...
We stand in support of racial equality. To be anti-racist, people must be able to listen, use their voices, take perspective, tell their stories, and express their thoughts at home, in school and in life. We are committed to continuing to focus our professional development on supporting children in “telling their story” as well as sharing narrative and expository selections of children’s literature that are written by Black authors and People of Color, that have characters representing multiple cultures, as well as those books that take on themes and topics such as racism, racial justice, and diversity. This is Maryellen Rooney Moreau’s 50th year as a speech/language pathologist specializing in communication and discourse. Her passion is helping children to think...
MindWing’s icons for narrative and expository language can make conversation about any TOPIC a strategic and scaffolded one. Last month I recorded a free webinar with Maryellen (Technology Tools to Engage Children in Science & Social Studies During Distance Learning Sessions) on expository text structures (ThemeMaker®) and using MindWing’s icons in context with technology resources. In this post, I’ll be giving some examples of expository-embedded resources online that can be used in teletherapy sessions. By expository-embedded, I mean resources that don’t necessarily say one, another, also, or first, then next, but can be used to form conversations and reviews with structures like List and Sequence. Take for example, Google Earth. This now-web-based interactive globe allows you to simply search and navigate in order to provide tours, and what is a tour but a LIST (or SEQUENCE) of places within a main idea or overall location...
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