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Magnet Set—Universal: Narrative and Expository

MindWing’s Universal Magnet Set is a 33-piece set of large, colorful magnets depicting MindWing’s patented icons. They can be used with both narrative and expository text instruction and intervention. Benefits: The large, colorful hand-held icons encourage group participation Works with...

SGM® Icons Magnets/Stickers SET

This set includes Narrative and Expository Mini Magnets AND Stickers: (1) SGM® Mini Magnets, (25) SGM® Icons Stickers, (1) ThemeMaker® Magnetic Snaps!, (25) ThemeMaker® Sticker Snaps! This new set includes 3 NEW items. You get the 4th item for FREE ($50...

SGM® Mini Magnets for Narrative/Expository Intervention

New Mini Magnets Contain Expository Magnets Too! SGM® Mini Magnets are NEW and Improved! This manipulative tool, based on the Story Grammar Marker®, now has magnetic icons for both narrative and expository intervention. This new version includes all of the...

Story Grammar Marker® Kit + FREE SGM Digital Icons Set

The Story Grammar Marker® Kit uses manipulative tools and resources that help students in grades two through six develop reading, writing and speaking skills vital for academic and social success. Benefits: Works with any existing program or reading series. Icon-based...

ThemeMaker® Quick Start + FREE ThemeMaker Digital Icons

ThemeMaker (Expository) Manual, ThemeMaker® Student Tool, Universal Mini Magnet Set 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,...

ThemeMaker® Kit + FREE ThemeMaker Digital Icons

The ThemeMaker® Kit is a uniquely designed approach to help students visualize and organize expository, informational material. The ThemeMaker® graphically represents—through MindWing’s patented icons—the seven text structures found in the content areas. Benefits: Works with any existing program or text...

Talk to Write, Write to Learn™ Kit

The Talk to Write, Write to Learn™ Kit is designed to improve listening, reading/comprehension, and expository text comprehension and writing for students in grades two through six. Benefits: Expands and develops the writing initiatives of school-based literacy programs. Introduces story...

ThemeMaker® Magnetic Snaps!

Each of the Eight (8) ThemeMaker® Magnetic Snaps card is a small magnet (ranging from 2"x3"–3"x3") depicting each of the expository text structures found in the ThemeMaker®. Each individual magnet image is a “snapshot” of the 8 ThemeMaker® expository text...

Talk to Write, Write to Learn™ Quick Start

The Talk to Write, Write to Learn™ Kit is designed to improve listening, reading/comprehension, and expository text comprehension and writing for students in grades two through six. Benefits: Expands and develops the writing initiatives of school-based literacy programs. Introduces story...

Social Emotional Learning Set

“Learning is social and emotional. Decades of research in human development, cognitive and behavioral neuroscience, and educational practice and policy have illuminated that major domains of human development—social, emotional, cognitive, linguistic, academic—are deeply intertwined in the brain and in behavior. Moreover,...

YouCue Feelings w/ SGM®’s Critical Thinking Triangle® in Action! Deluxe Set

$79.95 ($103 value! Approximately 20% OFF cost of buying items separately) 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...

Critical Thinking Triangle® in Action! Set

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...

SGM® Hybrid Implementation Kit

This special bundle includes a hand picked combination of 29 Story Grammar Marker® materials and tools for the most effective implementation of this methodology whether you are teaching remotely or in person! Currently, educators are faced with remote, hybrid, and/or in-person...

The Critical Thinking Triangle® in Action! + Making Connections!

The Critical Thinking Triangle® In Action! Thought Process Manipulative has been created because the Critical Thinking Triangle® is the crux of the Story Grammar Marker®, our tool for narrative development, story-telling, personal narratives, comprehension, writing and social communication. This Manipulative...

Story Grammar Marker® Quick Start + FREE SGM Digital Icons

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...

Icon STAMPede™ Stamp Activity Set

New and Improved STAMPede....now includes SGM® Thinking Bubble, a purple stamp pad in a handy case. 9 wood-mounted, rubber stamps of the patented icons of the Story Grammar Marker®. Using MindWing’s Icon STAMPede! students can... Revise and edit their writing Make...

Braidy the StoryBraid® Kit + FREE Braidy Digital Icons

Braidy, the StoryBraid® is an exciting and creative way to introduce and target instruction using the patented narrative icons of the original Story Grammar Marker®. Benefits: Targets oral language proficiency in the areas of conversation and narrative development Engages young children...

MindWing’s Game Set

For those fans of Story Grammar Marker®, Braidy®, ThemeMaker™ and Talk to Write, Write to Learn™ who may not be interested in the entire Autism Collection of books and activities, you now have the opportunity to incorporate these games and activities...

Story Grammar Marker® Boom™ Cards

All 4 Seasons Bundle or4 Seasonal Decks @ $42 each  NOTE: After you purchase and check out, you will receive an email that will take you to the BoomTM Card site. There you may add the Deck(s) to your existing Account...

Oral Discourse Strategies Kit

ADVANCED LEVEL (this kit is not for educators who are new to Story Grammar Marker®) Deepening student knowledge through discourse language development is a key to student engagement. Our latest product is chock full of hands-on materials and activities that...

SquiGuMs Wristbands Set

MindWing’s Two-In-One Wristbands – Set of 5 Give your students the ability to “carry” SGM® and Six-Second-Stories™ techniques with them throughout their day, even if they don’t have pockets! Used as a positive behavioral support, the patented icons engraved on...

Build-A-Braidy Cut-Outs

Build-A-Braidy is a hands-on activity that enables students to create their own Braidy the StoryBraid®. It teaches narrative development from the Descriptive Sequence to the Complete Episode levels to preschool through first grade students.  Benefits: Targets oral language development in...

Cohesive Tie “JAR-gon” Activity Kit

In addition to the “jar,” the “JAR-gon”  Kit contains: laminated, TWO-sided flash cards with 28 academic vocabulary words and conjunctions a clip-on neck tie 5 heavy-duty clothes pins detailed instruction booklet for conducting this activity with students Increase syntactical complexity...

Story Grammar Marker® KICK Start!

Different from the SGM® Quick Start (our starter set) or the full Story Grammar Marker® Kit (geared for classroom use, grades 2-5), this Story Grammar Marker® KICK Start contains 6 vital SGM® materials that an SLP or specialist would need to...

Cohesive Tie “JAR-gon” Activity Kit + “My Fantastic Words”

In addition to the “jar,” the “JAR-gon”  Kit contains: laminated, TWO-sided flash cards with 28 academic vocabulary words and conjunctions a clip-on neck tie 5 heavy-duty clothes pins detailed instruction booklet for conducting this activity with students Increase syntactical complexity...

The Autism Collection for Social Communication

MindWing’s Autism Collection for Social Communication includes three books. Click the titles below to look inside each book. It’s All About the Story Making Connections Facilitating Relationships: Six-Second-Stories™ and Other Social Communication Strategies... Includes hands-on tools and activities that focus on...

Academic Conversations Bundle!

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: Initiating a worthwhile topic Elaborating and...

The Critical Thinking Triangle® in Action! Print Downloads

  PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A COMPANION PRODUCT TO THE CRITICAL THINKING TRIANGLE® IN ACTION! KIT. This product contains only copyrighted, digital versions of the printed products and reproducible pages from the The Critical Thinking Triangle® in Action! Kit Guide. This product comes...

“Holding Stories in the Palm of Your Hand” (For Deaf or Hard of Hearing)

This book focuses on narrative instruction and intervention with Story Grammar Marker® for children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing. The goal is for all children to have the skills to independently and effectively communicate with anyone in their...

ThemeMaker® Print Downloads

  PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A COMPANION PRODUCT TO THE THE THEMEMAKER® KIT. This product contains only copyrighted, digital versions of the reproducible pages from The ThemeMaker® Teachers Manual from The ThemeMaker® Kit. This product comes FREE with the purchase of The ThemeMaker® Kit....

Braidy the StoryBraid® Quick Start + FREE Braidy Digital Icons

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...

DRIP-EY Protocol Refill Pack of 25

Diagnostic Record & Intervention Plan - Early Years (DRIP-EY) The ​DRIP-EY protocol gives DHH professionals a method to easily identify any gaps in language development, develop targeted intervention plans, and progress monitor language growth over time. It can be used...

Magnetic Spinner Activity for Narrative & Expository Text Questions

May 20, 2016

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Setting Can be the Key to a Story

September 27, 2010

My previous post discussed the narrative element of setting and the tendency of students on the autism spectrum (or with other language disorders) to leave out details about setting, causing listener confusion. One way to explore the importance of setting is to plan interventions using books with an integral setting- where the setting is key to the motivations of the characters and understanding of the plot.

One of my favorites in this vein is Donald Crews’ Shortcut, the story of a group of cousins who find themselves in unexpected danger after taking a shortcut home. Not only does the book serve as an excellent example of building suspense around a small moment in a personal narrative (great for students working on memoir), it also lends itself to being mapped both on a Setting Map and a literal, visual map to develop storytelling skills...

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