May 29, 2019 3 min read 2 Comments
This summer we are bringing back the “Summer Study Series!” This series of posts will provide overviews of recent research related to narrative language and Story Grammar Marker® in order to give you “food for thought” to digest relevant to clinical techniques in the upcoming school year.
I was quite excited to discover that a recent study on developing inferential language has a direct connection to SGM®, as MindWing’s icons were used in story mapping activities included as part of the studied intervention. Dawes, Leitao, Claessen and Kane (2019), developed and studied a specific intervention sequence for improving inferencing in students with Developmental Language Disorder (DVD). Some summarized points from the study are as follows:
As mentioned, the entire curriculum (which provides a good overview of the study if you don’t have access via the link above) can be downloaded from here. NOTE: the author has apparently removed link for viewing/download. This document outlines the four books used, macrostructure analyses corresponding with SGM®, scripted questions, and prediction activities. I’d suggest also that the SGM® iPad App or Magnet Sets would be very useful in replicating the ways that the researchers presented the narrative icons.
Check it out and I hope it will be useful in your next school year. A consideration can be that for older students, you can develop a similar series of lessons with other books according to the principles outlined and the question models.
October 01, 2019
The link for the report and the curriculum doesn’t show up when I click on the link.
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October 01, 2019
Thank you for notifying us. The author apparently has removed the document for viewing/downloading.