Story Grammar Marker®

By Maryellen Rooney Moreau

Grades 3-8

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$36.95
24" braided tool with icons to represent and sequence basic story components. Helps students retell and write stories. 8½" x 11" mini-poster defines each of the icons. Grades 3-8.
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24" braided tool with icons to represent and sequence basic story components. Helps students retell and write stories. 8½" x 11" mini-poster defines each of the icons. Grades 3-8.
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Author(s) Maryellen Rooney Moreau
Topic Grammar and Syntax, Reading

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Story Grammar Marker®

Do your students need help learning to tell and write stories? The Story Grammar Marker (SGM) is perfect for helping students to visualize the elements of an episode within a story. The 24" braided tool uses icons that represent and sequence the components necessary to retell and write a story.

The icon with eyes at one end represents the character (or characters) in an episode of a story. The star represents the setting of the story. The shoe is the "kick-off" or initiating event (the action that gets the story going). The heart represents the character's feelings about the initiating event. The hand represents the character's planned response to the "kick-off"—Together they represent The Beginning of a Story. Each bead represents an attempt to achieve the plan—Together they represent The Middle of a Story. Finally, the bow at the end represents the direct consequence as it relates to the planned attempts, and the hearts represent the character's feelings about the direct consequence—Together they represent The End of the Episode within a story.

As you tell, retell, or read a story with your students, you provide them with the structure necessary to visualize the components of the story by pointing to icons on the SGM. Then, when students tell a story to you, they can hold the SGM to make sure they remember all the important elements. The 8½" x 11" mini-poster defines each of the icons and is the perfect companion to the SGM.

Customer Reviews
  1. nice product
    Great tool to use with multiple ages, however Be forewarned (I wasn't) There is assembly required! I was hoping to use this right out of the package, but it has to be totally put together, other than the braid and beads!

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  2. Great for re-telling
    I love the Story Grammar Marker! Great tool for re-telling narratives and allows for visual aid. Students love manipulating the pieces. Useful tool!

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  3. Something to Hold on to
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    I'm extremely pleased with the Story Grammar Marker. My students are including more story elements when they retell a story after only a couple of weeks. But my favorite kid-moment came during Writers' Workshop. A student was writing a personal narrative and I mentioned he might like to end with a reflection. He went over to the story rope and held the little hearts on the bottom, signifying the lesson learned. "Like this?" he asked. Exactly, I replied.

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  4. Braidy
    Braidy has become a friend of the students in my therapy room. Braidy helps them to stay on track when composing or retelling a story. The children love to hold Braidy and easily remember what the icons stand for. Tactile cues work best with my caseload and holding onto their friend Braidy helps them achieve success in storytelling!!

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  5. Quality tool with great results.
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    I actually ordered this after my first one from the start-in kit started falling apart. I use the story grammar marker as part of a regular language lesson. I find he visual and tactile cues really help my students focus on the different elements of the story. The kids all line up to use it. Their ability to retell a story using a complete sentence has dramatically increased.

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  6. I really enjoy the story...
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    I really enjoy the story grammar marker and the chipper chap games.

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  7. The Story Grammar Marker is...
    The Story Grammar Marker is a great way for a student to visualize how to put a story together. I use this tool in my lesson plans when I have the students write their own stories.

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