Story Grammar Marker®

Teacher Manipulative and Mini-Poster

By Maryellen Rooney Moreau

Grades 3-8

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 81/2" x 11" mini-poster defines each of the icons and is the perfect companion to the SGM.

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