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If you work mostly with children in Early Childhood, Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st–2nd Grade and want to focus on Narrative Development, Braidy the StoryBraid® is a hands-on approach to foster oral language skills for young children in talk, listening/reading, comprehension, writing/drawing and play.
$ 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.
Prod. No. 01 300G
$ 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.
$ 194.95
Braidy, the StoryBraid® is an exciting and creative way to introduce and target instruction using the patented narrative icons of the original Story Grammar Marker®.
Item No 01 000G
You are allowed to download the icons to 4 devices.
$ 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.
$ 65.00
Braidy the StoryBraid® Teachers’ Manual is a resource for education professionals to introduce narrative development to preschool through second grade students.
Braidy the StoryBraid® Doll is a motivating hands-on tool that appeals to early childhood education students. The iconic structure of Braidy scaffolds narrative and oral story telling 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. 01 020
ISBNs: 978-0-9761393-1-7 (0-9761393-1-6)
© 2002, 2008
$ 80.00
Braidy the StoryBraid® Doll 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 010E
$ 9.99 $ 24.99
The purpose of the SGM® App is to help children think, communicate and learn. Since 1991, millions of children worldwide have benefited from using the colorful, patented icons of the Story Grammar Marker® (SGM®), a research-based tool for helping children with telling and retelling stories, comprehension, writing, reading comprehension and social communication. Now, the SGM® has come to life in the form of an App with exciting animation and engaging features that allow kids to see, listen, touch, move and interact with the icons to tell create a story!
Teachers, speech language pathologists, reading specialists, literacy coaches and parents can use this App with kids to help them “Become a Star Reporter” and create & tell their story or re-tell something they have read, seen or experienced. This app will help children to organize their thoughts for expressing or writing. It can help them with critical thinking and problem solving skills as well as to make connections among texts, themselves and the world around them.
The icons in this App are designed to “free up” working memory by giving kids a visual representation of the parts of a story that they can see, touch and move! They can type, draw, import images or import pictures from the camera roll to create a unique story or to retell a story from a book, show or movie. After creating each story, they can use the SGM® to assist them in telling their story and recording it. They can then become the SGM® Star Reporter and hear themselves telling their story! Each story can be saved and/or emailed to parents/teachers/specialists to monitor progress.
The Story Grammar Marker® can be used to support Common Core State Standards. This app is fun and engaging — and the methodology is research-based! Enjoy!
$ 24.95
Item No. 05 065
$ 14.95
Braidy Quarterly Data Collection form provides icon representations of the first five stages of narrative (story) development. It enables the education professional to track a student’s progress in preschool through second grade.
Item No. 01 024
$ 12.95
Build-A-Braidy is a hands-on activity that enables students to create their own Braidy the StoryBraid®. It teaches narrative development from the Descriptive Sequence to the Complete Episode levels to preschool through first grade students.
Item No. 01 030
$ 69.95
Our progress monitoring and benchmark tools will assist you in planning and implementing instruction and intervention as you collaborate with colleagues to foster student engagement. Using our data collection process, determine how individual students organize and interpret information used in problem solving. Differentiating instruction becomes a reality with the use of our evidenced based progress monitoring techniques. The analysis, interpretation and mindful use of data ultimately does make the difference for a child!
Item No. 04 030
$ 49.95
The “Core” of The Core: Using Story Grammar Marker® and Other MindWing Concepts Tools To Support Students in Meeting Grade-Level Common Core State Standards
“At the core of the Core is really that child sitting in a classroom at Memorial School on Main Street, Anywhere, USA. We can never forget that within the clamor for more intensive instruction within and across academic disciplines and grade levels, is the small voice of a child…waiting to be heard.” Maryellen Rooney Moreau, June 14, 2012
This book aligns the Common Core State Standards with MindWing’s methodology. It provides effective, evidence-based interventions to help students who are “at-risk” and those with identified learning difficulties to develop the Communicative Competence necessary to meet grade level standards and be prepared for college and/or career.
The “Core” of the Core includes...
This book will also provide the methodology necessary for helping those students who are “at risk” or have identified learning difficulties with…
Item No. 07 010
$ 19.95
In addition to the “jar,” the “JAR-gon” Kit contains:
Increase syntactical complexity and improve the level of sophistication of oral language and writing of your students with this handy, portable jar containing all of the components needed for the Cohesive Tie Activity.
See JAR-gon Kit + My Fantastic Words book
Item No. 03 090
$ 14.95
This 2-sided chart pairs the concepts listed below with Webb’s Depth of Knowledge (DoK) and with language development foundations of narrative and expository discourse. These concepts are:
Other products combined with this chart:
Product No. 05 090
$ 2.25
Bunch of Braidys is a student-friendly, laminated 18" x 24" poster or 8½" x 11" mini-poster that graphically displays Braidy the StoryBrai®d in various iconic forms of narrative development as depicted by community helpers.
Item No. 05 060 (Poster $8.95)
Item No. 05 061 (Mini-Poster $2.25)
$ 35.93
In addition to the “jar,” the “JAR-gon” Kit contains:
Increase syntactical complexity and improve the level of sophistication of oral language and writing of your students with this handy, portable jar containing all of the components needed for the Cohesive Tie Activity.
Item No. 03 090
$ 24.95
The front side of each of the Braidy® Checkers has the colorful, story icons of Braidy the StoryBraid® in picture form (such as on Our Friend Braidy® Poster) along with checkboxes. The back side of each Checker has depictions of Braidy® making expressions of the 6 universal feelings (happy, sad, mad, scared, surprised and disgusted). Each Checker comes with a dry-erase pen). The Checkers can be used in many ways:
Item No. 01 040
$ 9.95
Set of 25 Reusable Sticker Sheets. The Braid the StoryBraid® icon stickers have many uses in conjunction with the Braid the StoryBraid® approach.
The sticker sheets have 19 stickers on each and are another SGM visual, tactile manipulative. Each individual sticker on the “Braidy” image corresponds to part of the story—Character, Setting, Kick-Off, Feeling, Plan, 5 Planned Attempts or Actions, Direct Consequence and Resolution—which make up the narrative episode. There are Character stickers for each of the 6 Universal Feelings: happy, sad, mad, scared, disgusted, and surprised.
Popular uses for these stickers are making the students’ own “Braidy,” or putting the stickers on pages of children’s literature to identify the page that depicts that particular part of the story. The stickers are low-tack, making them able to be used multiple times. They can also be used to…
Item No. 01 022
$ 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!
$ 9.95
Give your students the ability to “carry” SGM® and Six-Second-Stories™ techniques with them throughout their day, even if they don’t have pockets!
Used as a positive behavioral support, the patented icons engraved on the reversible wristbands can be used in academic settings for language and literacy, as well as in social situations for conversation initiation and repair and social problem solving.
SquiGuMs are appropriate for adult use, too, since our students will benefit from consistent support across multiple environments (playground, cafeteria, activities, classroom and home), provided by multiple members of a school staff (teachers, aides, specialists), as well as parents.
This handy wristband is a “go-anywhere” tactile-kinesthetic tool designed to bridge the gap between therapy, the classroom and the Real World. Attractive to both students and their peers, SquiGuMs reflects years of expert professional experience. It does not replace the iconic hand-held Story Grammar Marker® for modeling and guided practice: SquiGuMs enhances and expands its use.
Product Item No. 04 080
$ 25.00
Are you shopping for your favorite educators but can't decide on the perfect gift? Give the gift of choice with a MindWing Concepts, Inc. eGift Card!
Let them decide and they will benefit throughout the year!
eGift Cards in denominations of $25, $50, $100 and $250 are delivered by email and contain instructions to redeem them at mindwingconcepts.com online checkout. And, they don’t have to use it all at once—we’ll print the card balance on their Order Confirmation.
When you receive the eGift Card by email, forward the email to your recipient.
Discounts can not be applied to eGift Cards. Our gift cards have NO additional processing fees. At this time, we do not offer physical, printed Gift Cards by mail.
$ 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)!
***Note: Set now also includes a Powerpoint file with all 18 images that you can use as your virtual background in Zoom. Read the “_Powerpoint-Zoom-ReadMe.doc” file in your download.
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
$ 49.95
Prod. No. 01 500G
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