ThemeMaker® Teachers’ Manual

Are you looking for a guide for the development and expression of expository thinking? MindWing’s ThemeMaker™ is a uniquely designed approach to help students organize , comprehend, orally express, and write high level narratives and informational text. ThemeMaker™ focuses on the 7 primary text structures: description, listing, sequencing, cause/effect, problem/solution, compare/contrast, and persuasion. These text structures are a roadmap to oral and written argument. In addition to these structures, we have included a conflict resolution process to tie into social communication and pragmatics.

• Research paper guide
• Lessons include chapter books
• Critical Thinking Triangle^® lessons including emotions, mental state verbs, and plans

Benefits:

• Provides the educational professional with an extensive background for expository text intervention
• Provides several examples of higher level narratives and expository text selections
• Provides a thorough grounding for the education professional in the language and thought processes needed by their students to produce such passages
• Expands and develops the reading and writing initiatives of school based literacy programs
• Icon-based graphic organizers foster flexibility when instructing diverse learners

Includes:

• One 160-page wire-bound guide, including how to implement the ThemeMaker™, organizational maps, lessons/sample research paper, and an extensive reference section for implementing expository (text) instruction
• Website link to downloadable PDFs of all manual-included maps and forms

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