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: Wednesday, May 15, 2024 and Thursday, May 16, 2024
TIME: 4:00 pm-7:00 pm (EDT) (two 3-hour sessions)
LOCATION: Virtual Sessions on Zoom
INCLUDED: Extensive E-Book with Templates, Progress Monitoring Forms, Lessons, and Activities; Certificate of Completion; 6 Professional Development Hours (PDHs) (formerly Certification Maintenance Hours or (CMHs)
COST: $249 per participant
(contact info@mindwingconcepts.com for discounted pricing for groups of 4+)
This Master Class is open to the public.
Add this MASTER CLASS to your shopping cart and check out. You'll receive a confirmation receipt by email prompting you to register for the Zoom classes. Then you will receive a Zoom Link by separate email. SAVE that email for joining the classes later. All registrants will have access to the RECORDED VERSION of this Master Class until July 31, 2024. You will be eligible for a Certificate of Completion if you only watch the recording. You will be eligible for 6 Professional Development Hours (PDHs) only when participating LIVE in the class.
Every child has a story to tell —
be the one to help them tell it!
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 MACRO-Structure and Micro-Structure |
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 the 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 the 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 one Macrostructure Goal and one Microstructure Goal |
6:30-7:00 | Question and Answer Session |
Learn directly from the experts!
Maryellen designed the Story Grammar Marker® Narrative Development Approach in 1991 and founded MindWing Concepts, Inc. She has been in the field of Speech-Language Pathology for 50 years and is 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 worldwide.
Linda received her Master’s Degree in Speech-Language Pathology in 1981 from the University of Maryland. In 2014 she received her CAGS from American International College as a Reading Specialist. Linda has practiced in many settings, including hospitals, and public and private schools. She is the former Principal of the Curtis Blake Day School of the Children’s Study Home, for students with dyslexia/LLD.
Within the construct of Narrative (story) Development, after attending this presentation, learners will be able to:
The Story Grammar Marker® Master Class will be provided online LIVE by accessing a Zoom meeting link. The course will be recorded for future use by MindWing Concepts, Inc. The course content will include lectures, video(s), case study reviews, break-out group activities, group discussions, and question-and-answer sessions. Attendees’ microphones will be muted during the workshop. Questions may be posed by listeners by “raising their hand” (live) or using the “chat” feature on Zoom. Questions posed using the “chat” feature will be shared by the moderator with the presenter and addressed.
These tools will be used to assess the degree to which course participants achieved the course's/session's learning outcomes:
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.
There is a fee for this course which will be rescheduled if canceled for any reason. If for any reason, the course is canceled 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 cannot attend on these dates, we will transfer your registration for the next available SGM® Master Class.
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.
You will receive a Certificate of Completion with a Course Agenda as documentation of 6 Professional Development Hours (PDHs)—formerly Certification Maintenance Hours or (CMHs).
Click here for details about Professional Development Hours and accepted activities. https://www.asha.org/certification/factdef/
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