SGM Summer Reading List: Part 3, Setting

I hope you have been able to browse through our recent blogs: SGM Summer Reading List, Part 1 (Complete Episode) and Part 2 (Character). We have received several comments from people who thought both were so beneficial in demonstrating the depth of the Story Grammar Marker^®. The SGM^® is based upon research showing that strengthening oral narrative discourse skills improves comprehension and writing competency.

Our Language/Literacy Developmental Checklist (page 34, Story Grammar Marker^® manual) depicts story grammar terminology within a narrative developmental sequence as each stage builds on the one before. The SGM^® is your tool to directly apply this research to your classroom program. This is a tool that can be used across grade levels, pre-K through high school, and across the curriculum.

Today’s blog features past selections with the focus on the SETTING.

1. Story Grammar and the Classroom Curriculum: The Five Senses — May 16, 2015
2. SGM Setting Activity with Younger Students — December 17, 2015
3. Winter’s Coming! Narrative/Expository Setting Lesson — December 4, 2015
4. February is Black History Month, Lesson 3 — February 19, 2016
5. Setting Activity-The Little House — January 12, 2016
6. Understanding Novels/Chapter Books-Geographical Setting — January 14, 2016
7. Understanding Novels/Chapter Books with SGM, Part 2 — January 21, 2016
8. Kindergarten and First Grade Setting: Bear Feels Scared — April 8, 2016