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$ 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:
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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.
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Item No. 03 200
$ 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.
$ 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
$ 39.95
The Critical Thinking Triangle® In Action! Thought Process Manipulative was created to make specific use of the Critical Thinking Triangle®—the crux of the Story Grammar Marker®, our tool for narrative development, story-telling, personal narratives, comprehension, writing and social communication.
This Manipulative is an 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
$ 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:
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Product No. 05 090
$ 14.95
PRICE FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY!
This product is digital product and available by download ONLY. After checking out, you will have immediate access to download it AND receive an email with a download link. AND, you'll receive an email for a $14.95 discount on a future order above $49.95.
Narrative intervention, using the Story Grammar Marker® approach, simultaneously targets discourse, sentence level language construction and expansion (syntax and morphology) as well as vocabulary concerns! This simultaneous targeting serves to clarify and facilitate documentation. With the goal of improved language and communication skills, Narrative Assessment is one of the biggest bangs for your buck for tracking and documenting student progress.
In the current “Document! Document! Document!” environment, our tools are uniquely designed to support this documentation process. In this packet, we share a step-by-step procedure to track narrative samples with MindWing’s systematic and explicit progress monitors and graphs. It includes detailed instructions of DocHub.com and demonstrates how to analyze the MACRO- and Microstructure of a narrative.
This documentation process provides the service provider with a complete and professional procedure for sharing with colleagues, administrators and parents. Downloadable progress monitoring PDF forms are also included for use in DocHub.com or any annotation platform:
Item No. 04 033
$ 19.95
The Universal Digital Icons: Complete Set of Braidy®, SGM® and ThemeMaker® Images Set contains 127 high quality, colorful, icon images from MindWing Concepts’ narrative and expository text approach. This set can be used by professionals, parents, and students who have a range of ages and abilities in their students, clients or children and want access to all of the icons.
Although nothing truly replaces the “magic” of students holding the Story Grammar Marker® tool and other MindWing tools in their hands, these digital icons expand the use and flexibility of Braidy®’s, SGM®’s and ThemeMaker’s approach. Our SGM® iPad App is another a great way to use our icons on a digital platform. That being said, we also know that having the icons in this additional format will be helpful in other ways such as:
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.
Contains Braidy®, SGM® and ThemeMaker® icons — 142 images within a Powerpoint file, ready to use or to copy into other programs.
$ 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.
$ 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.
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