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$ 197.00
Have you always wanted to attend an official “Story Grammar Marker® Workshop” with creator Maryellen Rooney Moreau, but it was never offered in your district or location? NOW is your chance!!
Date: Tuesday November 10 and Wednesday November 11, 2020
Time: 8:00 AM-11:00 AM AEST (UTC +10) (each day)
Location: Zoom Live Meeting
Included: Extensive E-Book with Templates, Progress Monitoring Forms, Lessons, and Activities; Certificate of Completion
This Master Class is open to the public. To register, add this class to your shopping cart and check out. You'll receive a confirmation receipt by email. A link to join this Zoom meeting will be sent to all registered participants at least two days prior to the workshop. All registrants will have access to the RECORDED VERSION of this Master Class until November 27, 2020. If you watch the recording, you will be eligible for Certificate of Completion.
Every child has a story to tell – be the one to help them tell it!
Learn directly from the expert! Maryellen Rooney Moreau, M.Ed. CCC-SLP, designed the Story Grammar Marker® Narrative Development Approach in 1991 and founded MindWing Concepts, Inc. As Founder and President, she has authored 18 publications and created 45 hands-on tools and activities. She has also presented on the discourse level of language and its link to literacy, knowledge and social emotional learning to thousands of educators world-wide.
Maryellen’s 50-year professional career includes: school-based SLP, college professor, diagnostician at the Curtis Blake Child Development Center, Coordinator of Intervention Curriculum and Professional Development at the Curtis Blake Day School for children with dyslexia and language learning disabilities. In 2011, Moreau received the Boise Peace Quilt Project Award for her work with children in the areas of conflict resolution and social communication. In 2014, she received the Alice H. Garside Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Dyslexia Association, Massachusetts Branch (MABIDA) for exemplary leadership, service, or achievement in the area of helping children with dyslexia and language learning disabilities. Moreau is an internationally recognized presenter.
Within the construct of Narrative (story) Development, after attending this presentation, learner will be able to:
| DAY 1 | |
| 5:00-5:15 | Introduction to the Story Grammar Marker® Approach |
| 5:15-5:30 | Strands of Oral Language and the Link to Literacy |
| 5:30-5:45 | Elements of Narrative MACROStructure and MicroStructure |
| 5:45-6:15 | Participation: Readers’ theater & group analysis of a Narrative Episode utilizing The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch |
| 6:15-6:45 | Break Out Rooms: Practice retelling The Paper Bag Princess from the perspectives of Princess, Prince or Dragon |
| 6:45-7:15 | Stages of Narrative Development |
| 7:15-7:45 | Elements of the Discourse, Semantics, Syntax, Phonology, and Pragmatics strands of language |
| 7:45-8:00 | Participation: Cohesive Tie Activity and Sentence Complements |
| DAY 2 | |
| 5:00-5:30 | Perspective Taking, Inference and Theory of Mind with The Critical Thinking Triangle® |
| 5:30-5:45 | Links to Common Core Standards |
| 5:45-6:00 | Break Out Rooms: Personal Narratives |
| 6:00-6:30 | Participation: Analyze and monitor progress of Child’s Oral Retelling of Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| 6:30-7:00 | Participation: Choose Children’s Literature Selections for each stage of narrative development |
| 7:00-7:15 | Participation: Connections to Expository (Information) Text |
| 7:15-7:30 | Assignment: Big Al by Andrew Clements – Complete Map and write 1 Macrostructure Goal and 1 Microstructure Goal |
| 7:30-8:00 | Question and Answer Session |
There is a fee for this course and it will be rescheduled if cancelled for any reason. If for any reason, the course is cancelled by MindWing Concepts (and can NOT be rescheduled), MindWing Concepts, Inc., will notify participants via email and refunds will be issued. If you are ill or there is another emergency and you are not able to attend on these dates, we will transfer your registration for the next available SGM® Master Class.
Maryellen Rooney Moreau, M.Ed., CCC-SLP, has ownership interest in MindWing Concepts, and holds intellectual property rights and patents. Maryellen is employed as president of MindWing Concepts. In that capacity, she writes books, creates materials, consults, trains and presents.
No relevant non-financial relationships exist.
This presentation will focus exclusively on narrative development with the Story Grammar Marker® Approach and will not include information on other similar or related narrative development tools.
$ 197.00
Have you always wanted to attend an official “Story Grammar Marker® Workshop” with creator Maryellen Rooney Moreau, but it was never offered in your district or location? NOW is your chance!!
Date: Tuesday November 17 and Wednesday November 18, 2020
Time: 4:00-7:00 PM EST (each day)
Location: Zoom Live Meeting
Included: Extensive E-Book with Templates, Progress Monitoring Forms, Lessons, and Activities; Certificate of Completion
This Master Class is open to the public. To register, add this class to your shopping cart and check out. You'll receive a confirmation receipt by email. A link to join this Zoom meeting will be sent to all registered participants at least two days prior to the workshop. All registrants will have access to the RECORDED VERSION of this Master Class until December 4, 2020. If you watch the recording, you will be eligible for Certificate of Completion. This virtual workshop is 6 hours of professional development—please contact Sheila Moreau smmoreau@mindwingconcepts.com with additional questions.
Every child has a story to tell – be the one to help them tell it!
Learn directly from the expert! Maryellen Rooney Moreau, M.Ed. CCC-SLP, designed the Story Grammar Marker® Narrative Development Approach in 1991 and founded MindWing Concepts, Inc. As Founder and President, she has authored 18 publications and created 45 hands-on tools and activities. She has also presented on the discourse level of language and its link to literacy, knowledge and social emotional learning to thousands of educators world-wide.
Maryellen’s 50-year professional career includes: school-based SLP, college professor, diagnostician at the Curtis Blake Child Development Center, Coordinator of Intervention Curriculum and Professional Development at the Curtis Blake Day School for children with dyslexia and language learning disabilities. In 2011, Moreau received the Boise Peace Quilt Project Award for her work with children in the areas of conflict resolution and social communication. In 2014, she received the Alice H. Garside Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Dyslexia Association, Massachusetts Branch (MABIDA) for exemplary leadership, service, or achievement in the area of helping children with dyslexia and language learning disabilities. Moreau is an internationally recognized presenter.
Within the construct of Narrative (story) Development, after attending this presentation, learner will be able to:
| DAY 1 | |
| 4:00-4:15 | Introduction to the Story Grammar Marker® Approach |
| 4:15-4:30 | Strands of Oral Language and the Link to Literacy |
| 4:30-4:45 | Elements of Narrative MACROStructure and MicroStructure |
| 4:45-5:15 | Participation: Readers’ theater & group analysis of a Narrative Episode utilizing The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch |
| 5:15-5:45 | Break Out Rooms: Practice retelling The Paper Bag Princess from the perspectives of Princess, Prince or Dragon |
| 5:45-6:15 | Stages of Narrative Development |
| 6:15-6:45 | Elements of the Discourse, Semantics, Syntax, Phonology, and Pragmatics strands of language |
| 6:45-7:00 | Participation: Cohesive Tie Activity and Sentence Complements |
| DAY 2 | |
| 4:00-4:30 | Perspective Taking, Inference and Theory of Mind with The Critical Thinking Triangle® |
| 4:30-4:45 | Links to Common Core Standards |
| 4:45-5:00 | Break Out Rooms: Personal Narratives |
| 5:00-5:30 | Participation: Analyze and monitor progress of Child’s Oral Retelling of Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| 5:30-6:00 | Participation: Choose Children’s Literature Selections for each stage of narrative development |
| 6:00-6:15 | Participation: Connections to Expository (Information) Text |
| 6:15-6:30 | Assignment: Big Al by Andrew Clements – Complete Map and write 1 Macrostructure Goal and 1 Microstructure Goal |
| 6:30-7:00 | Question and Answer Session |
There is a fee for this course and it will be rescheduled if cancelled for any reason. If for any reason, the course is cancelled by MindWing Concepts (and can NOT be rescheduled), MindWing Concepts, Inc., will notify participants via email and refunds will be issued. If you are ill or there is another emergency and you are not able to attend on these dates, we will transfer your registration for the next available SGM® Master Class.
Maryellen Rooney Moreau, M.Ed., CCC-SLP, has ownership interest in MindWing Concepts, and holds intellectual property rights and patents. Maryellen is employed as president of MindWing Concepts. In that capacity, she writes books, creates materials, consults, trains and presents.
No relevant non-financial relationships exist.
This presentation will focus exclusively on narrative development with the Story Grammar Marker® Approach and will not include information on other similar or related narrative development tools.
$ 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.
$ 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!
Includes:
Learn More About The SGM® Manual
Includes:
Learn More About Stories for Teaching...
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.
More About The SGM® Teacher Manipulative
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.
$ 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
$ 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.
$ 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
$ 49.95
Prod. No. 01 500G
$ 39.95
Prod. No. 03 500G
$ 24.95
Prod. No. 06 500G
$ 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
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