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$ 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
$ 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:
“Story” Side:
“Feelings” Side:
Item No. 01 040
$ 9.95
Set of 25. The SGM® icon stickers have many uses. Each sticker strip has 13 stickers. Each individual sticker image corresponds to an icon of the Story Grammar Marker®. Each icon represents a part of a narrative episode: character, setting, initiating event, feeling, plan, mental state, planned attempts (actions), direct consequence, and resolution.
Popular uses for these stickers are in individual and paired editing and revision of student writing/drawing and also 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. 03 022
$ 8.95
Each of the 8 ThemeMaker® Magnetic Snaps is a small magnet (ranging from 2"x3"–3"x3") depicting each of the expository text structures found in the ThemeMaker®. Each individual magnet image is a “snapshot” of the 8 ThemeMaker® expository text structures:
They can be used in therapy, classroom centers, push-in, small groups, and for individual students to assist them in accessing expository text, such as in textbooks, non-fiction books, websites, research.
Here is an example of their use with Alaska’s Three Bears.
Item No. 06 026
$ 9.95
These come in a set of 25 sticker sheets. Each of the 8 ThemeMaker® Sticker Snaps is low-tack and reusable. Each sticker image is a “snapshot” image of the ThemeMaker® icons for expository text.
Each includes a depiction of the macrostructure and microstructure of 8 expository text structures: descriptive, compare/contrast, list, sequence, cause/effect, problem/solution, persuasion, and argument.
The most popular uses for these stickers are in textbooks, children’s non-fiction books, individual and paired editing, and revision of student writing/drawing. They can also be used to…
Item No. 06 024
$ 44.95
Set includes a 2-sided 11x17 Discourse and Thought Development Chart with DoK/Bloom’s 2-sided Taxonomy Wheel
Guide Book is Also Available By Itself Item No. 07 020
This Guide gets in-depth how to analyze text complexity using the Model of Text Complexity Triangle; Quantitative Measures, Qualitative Analysis and Reader and Task Considerations. Close Reading, SGM®/ThemeMaker®-style is also explained for helping students access complex text. Since their inception in the early ’90s, Story Grammar Marker® and ThemeMaker® have been used to tackle the case of complex text, as is evident in the included Discourse and Thought Development Chart that delves into content complexity for both narrative and expository text, as well.
Item No. 07 200
$ 39.95
The Critical Thinking Triangle® In Action! Thought Process Manipulative has been created because the Critical Thinking Triangle® is the crux of the Story Grammar Marker®, our tool for narrative development, story-telling, personal narratives, comprehension, writing and social communication.
This Manipulative is a enhancement to Story Grammar Marker® and contains 5 elements that connect and interact among each other to enable students to think about their thinking: to infer, solve problems, resolve conflicts, take perspective and more!
Thinking deserves its own hands-on tool. This new tool makes it possible for children to actually manipulate, talk about and comprehend the elements of the Critical Thinking Triangle® including:
Watch a Webinar Using The CTT in Action!
Extended Demo Lesson Video with Three Second Graders
Prod. No. 07 100
$ 9.95
Set of 25. The Braid the StoryBraid® icon stickers have many uses in conjunction with the Braid the StoryBraid® approach.
The sticker sheets have 19 stickers on them and are another 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 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
$ 174.95
Deepening student knowledge through discourse language development is a key to student engagement. Our latest product is chock full of hands-on materials and activities that are explained, laminated, and ready to use! Based upon reciprocal teaching and learning strategies, you will be able to guide students as they engage in complex projects and academic tasks through explicit instruction in the structure and use of discourse processes. The kit also includes our innovative Discourse and Thought Development Chart which graphically demonstrates the process of deepening knowledge through oral discourse development.
This Kit contains:
This new cutting-edge Kit applies a macro-strategy approach to narrative and expository text selections. Pulling together discourse level language development and Webb’s Depth of Knowledge, this Kit shows students how to use text structure as a guide to create text dependent questions and answers and encourages the development of self-teaching procedures.
Facilitate the modeling of strategies to increase comprehension and encourage academic discussion using included pragmatics chart and conversation moves cards. Also, use this Kit to help children develop complex sentence structure using cohesive ties and other academic vocabulary.
Prod. No. 03 095
$ 0.99
Lyrics Below!
What do you get when a teacher—Dita Rose—who is also a singer/songwriter collaborates with a speech language pathologist—Maryellen Rooney Moreau—who created the Story Grammar Marker®?
You get to bring to life a magical tune to help children learn the parts of a story for telling personal narratives, comprehension and writing. Musician and educator, Dita Rose, was inspired to write lyrics and music to teach her students the story elements of Braidy the StoryBraid® and Story Grammar Marker®. After working with Maryellen Rooney Moreau, creator of the SGM®, and making a few tweaks, the amazing THE BRAIDY SONG is now available on multiple digital platforms for only $0.99.
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For teaching purposes, here are the lyrics. This song can be used as a companion to the Story Grammar Marker® and Braidy the StoryBraid® by MindWing Concepts, Inc.
THE BRAIDY® SONG© by Dita Rose
Lalalala… Lalalala…. Lalalala. Lalalala…
Chorus:
I’m talking about Braidy and I’m steppin’ out
To tell you about something that will make you shout.
You need to tell a story and you don’t know how.
Just listen to me baby, and I’ll show you now.
Verse 1:
I’m asking who (Who) is this all about?
A girl, a boy, a character, and what they’re like
And tell me when (When) did it all go down?
Where did the setting happen? Just look around.
Hmmm…. Hmmmm…
Verse 2
Now tell me what (What) the kick-off is.
What set events in motion... make your story spin?
And say goodbye, (BYE) to the ho-hum day
‘Cause something made the story go another way.
Hmmm….. Hmmm…… Hmmmm… Hmmmm…
Lalalala…. Lalalala…. lalalala….. Lalalala
Braidy Song
Verse 3
I’m talking about feelings like happy and sad.
Cranky, aggravated... now just relax.
What’s your plan (plan), to make it right.
Tell me all about the story line.
We’re counting 1 (one) 2 (two) 3 (three) 4 (four)
Review the story actions and tell me more.
Chorus
I’m talking about Braidy and I’m steppin’ out
To tell you about something that will make you shout.
You need to tell a story and you don’t know how.
Just listen to me baby, and I’ll show you now.
Verse 4
It’s time to see (see) how the story ends.
What is the resolution and the consequence.
How did it feel (feel) when the story stops?
Use some inspiration, make the story POP.
Hmmm….. Hmmm….. Hmmm….. Hmmm…..
Tag: Now wait! (WAIT!) and take a break.
All this thinking is making me stretch my brain...(AHHHHH)
because I’m…. talking about Braidy… (to end)
Maryellen Rooney Moreau, creator of Story Grammar Marker® and Braidy the StoryBraid®, is a Speech Language Pathologist. One day, in 1991, while co-teaching a writing lesson with third grade children at the Curtis Blake Day School where she directed the curriculum, an eight-year-old boy approached her with his conventional “beginning, middle and end” graphic organizer. He had tears in his eyes and said, “I don’t know what to put in my boxes—I never know what to do with my boxes!”
Inspired by this interaction and cognizant of research and experience in language development and early literacy, Moreau designed a hands-on, multi-sensory tool to assist this boy to tell his story. She assigned a colorful, meaningful icon to represent each part of the story! To create the Story Grammar Marker® Maryellen took the icons and placed them on braided yarn to symbolize the strands of oral language that are woven together to make up the backbone of the story or the information being communicated. Her intention was for children to use it to “mark” the part of the story as they told/write it. The icons were grouped into Beginning, Middle and End: the beginning (character, setting, kick-off, feeling, thinking verbs and plan), the middle (the actions the character took to carry out the plan) and the end (the direct consequence or tie up, and then resolution or moral/lesson). With colleagues Carolyn West, Ph.D., and Holly Fidrych, M.S., CCC-SLP, Moreau field-tested the tool at the day school and other local public schools – both children and teachers LOVED it!
About 20 years later, Maryellen introduced Story Grammar Marker® and Braidy the StoryBraid®, for young children, to the teachers at Currey Ingram Academy in the Nashville area, which is a school for students with learning differences and unique learning styles.
Dita Rose, a teacher there as well as singer/songwriter began to use SGM® and Braidy® tools. Dita Rose is the artist who wrote the music and lyrics for “The Braidy® Song,” based on the Story Grammar Marker® narrative (story) icons. As a teacher, Dita tries to make learning fun and engaging for her students with music. She makes up little melodies sometimes on the spot just to get their attention or make a new concept stick. When she started using the Story Grammar Marker® puppet, Braidy the StoryBraid®, she started brainstorming ways she could use Braidy® elements in a song.
One night, Dita couldn’t get to sleep and her brain was overflowing with thoughts. The song melody and words just came to her and Dita started recording the song on her phone in the dark, trying not to wake her husband! It took a few tries to get all the Braidy® elements in, but she managed to get the song finished and her students loved it! She played and sang it together with students in her classes many times over the next few years.
Upon hearing the song, the Assistant Head of School, Dr. Hannah, encouraged Dita to send the song to the folks at MindWing Concepts to see if they liked the song and might want to publish it. Maryellen Moreau and Sheila Moreau LOVED the catchy tune and colorful lyrics. After collaboration and a couple of tweaks, it was ready to be released for educators to use and inspire students in their classrooms.
Maryellen Moreau has played the piano and organ for 60 years, so she was thrilled to see her professional life’s work put to music! She and her husband Gerry, who also played the organ and sings have three children and five grandchildren—all of whom love to sing and tell stories, so they absolutely love “The Braidy® Song!”
In addition to teaching for the last 17 years, Dita and her husband have been doing music together as “The Rose Factor” for many years and they have three beautiful children. Dita is so thankful for the opportunity to share this song with others. Maryellen and Sheila are thrilled that Dita shared her talents with them in order to make this song a reality! Dita hopes “The Braidy® Song” brings joy to many students and makes reading and writing comprehension engaging and fun.
$ 124.95
Closing The Gap: The Early Interventionist's Guide to Assessing and Monitoring Bilingual Language Acquisition in Children Who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing: Birth–3 is a book that provides a foundational understanding about Language Deprivation Syndrome and language acquisition for Deaf or hard of hearing children between the ages of birth to three. It identifies how to appropriately assess both ASL and English languages, develop targeted intervention plans using the Zone of Proximal Development, and monitor bilingual language development over time. Closing The Gap also serves as the instructional guide for professionals using the DRIP-EY.
The DRIP-EY protocol gives DHH professionals a method to easily identify any gaps in language development, develop targeted intervention plans, and progress monitor language growth over time. It can be used to ameliorate the language gap in Deaf children caused by Language Deprivation Syndrome. The DRIP-EY provides you with a visual, concrete document to collect the necessary language data, as well as a graph to monitor and analyze progress in both ASL and English. The DRIP-EY has an easy-to-use system to help you calculate the quantity of intervention needed, based on the size of the language gap, as well as tools to aid the professional in developing appropriate language goals of the highest quality.
Starter Kit: Includes the Closing The Gap: Early Interventionist's Guide, as well as a set of 25 Protocols. Protocols may not be reproduced and you will need one form for each child per year.—$124.95
Protocol Refill Packs: Refill packs can be ordered in sets of 25 each.—$25.00
Holding Stories In The Palm Of Your Hand
This book focuses on narrative instruction and intervention with Story Grammar Marker® for children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing. The goal is for all children to have the skills to independently and effectively communicate with anyone in their environment using their preferred modality of communication, including American Sign Language. This book also provides criterion-based assessments for narrative macro- and micro-structure for both English and American Sign Language.
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