Are you looking for a guide for the development and expression of expository thinking? MindWing’s ThemeMaker™ is a uniquely designed approach to help students organize , comprehend, orally express, and write high level narratives and informational text. ThemeMaker™ focuses on the 7 primary text structures: description, listing, sequencing, cause/effect, problem/solution, compare/contrast, and persuasion. These text structures are a roadmap to oral and written argument. In addition to these structures, we have included a conflict resolution process to tie into social communication and pragmatics.
 
Research paper guide
Lessons include chapter books
Critical Thinking Triangle® lessons including emotions, mental state verbs, and plans
 
Benefits:
Provides the educational professional with an extensive background for expository text intervention
Provides several examples of higher level narratives and expository text selections
Provides a thorough grounding for the education professional in the language and thought processes needed by their students to produce such passages
Expands and develops the reading and writing initiatives of school based literacy programs
Icon-based graphic organizers foster flexibility when instructing diverse learners