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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.
$ 19.95
Virtual Posters is a collection of 18 high resolution, “virtual backgrounds” designed to be used as instructional tools within video conference platforms such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Skype,*** or any platform that allows you to upload your own custom virtual background/wallpaper. These “Virtual Posters” provide an easy and seamless way to use MindWing’s colorful, unique icons and visuals for instruction within your remote learning platform (or even on a white board in your classroom)!
There is space in the middle of each image to allow for you to be there on camera and have the images showing around you to point to or reference. These backgrounds can also be used in the classroom or therapy room on an interactive white board, using the space in the middle to write content.
This collection of virtual background includes backgrounds for early childhood narrative development, elementary narrative development including the beginning, middle and end of stories, charts for teaching Pragmatics for Distance Learning, the Critical Thinking Triangle® for perspective taking, problems solving, character motivation, and more—as well as expository text structures for science and social studies.
The 18, high quality images are available for immediate download. They are 16:9 Ratio, 1920×1080 pixels, and do not have watermarks. In this collection, images included are:
***Note: Google Meet and Google Hangouts do not have an easy way of adding backgrounds (wallpaper) at this time, unless you are part of G Suite and have an administrator, who can easily add 10 backgrounds. It is a feature request, so expect it to be an easy process for individual users soon. There are workarounds, but most involve using other software and a green screen. Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Skype work more than adequately without a green screen. More suggestions are included with the MindWing Virtual Posters file download..
Prod. No. 05 100
$ 39.95
Prod. No. 03 500G
$ 49.95
Prod. No. 01 500G
$ 24.95
Prod. No. 06 500G
$ 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
$ 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.
$ 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.
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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
MindWing Concepts, Inc. is the owner of U.S. Patent 5,658,150 and Pending Application Number 29/284061. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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See Also “Maryellen’s Musings” Blog
In the past couple of weeks, I have spoken with many friends and colleagues about the topic du jour: What does “back to school” look like for you and for your children? The answers range from full-time, in-class school days to full-time remote learning, to every other day in-person school with other days being remote, to weekly alternating student cohorts, to hybrid models, and more. While we, at MindWing, focus most of the time on the social-emotional, language and literacy aspects of these challenges, today we want to focus on the practical – using the Story Grammar Marker® Approach and related multi-sensory tools regardless of venue or platform...
For our last 😢entry in our “Summer Study Series” for 2020, we look at a perspective on social cognition with a twist: how are children with significant speech sound disorders, such as apraxia of speech, impacted within the sequence of developing social competencies? This article, What Does It Mean to Be Social? Defining the Social Landscape for Children With Childhood Apraxia of Speech, is provided by Nancy Tarshis, Michelle Garcia Winner, and Pamela Crooke (2020) and was released within ASHA’s Perspectives (Special Interest Group 2) journal available to anyone with a SIG membership in any specialty. For others, the article is behind a paywall, so I hope this review at least will be helpful...
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