StoryTIC is the digital transformation of the MultiModal Narrative intervention program (MMN). MMN is an intervention program that helps improve oral narrative skills in the Catalan language and is complementary to regular instruction. The intervention focuses on boosting the oral narrative structure and emotional perspective-taking through a set of validated educational strategies, such as the integrated use of question-answer sequences to promote the understanding of the stories, positive feedback and the use of audiovisual supports and multimodality (the involvement of the whole body through gestures and facial expressions) to enact the main actions and emotions described in the stories.
MMN offers a significant level of flexibility so that a variety of professionals (early childhood teachers, speech therapists, etc.) can use the same program with various levels of support.
StoryTIC offers the materials of the MMN program in a digital and playful format, with the option of incorporating activities with augmented reality.
Free narrative intervention program
To promote verbal and gestural skills
To implement with kindergarten and first grade children
It offers two different supports to be applied in a group or individually
Fun activities with the option of gamification with augmented reality
Universal support to implement in the classroom and aimed at all children
Intensive support to implement individually
Multimodal
It includes the use of hand gestures, body movements, facial expressions and the expressive use of the voice.
Inclusive
It enhances the inclusion of children and coordination between professionals, as it offers two levels of support.
Interactive and playful
It integrates audiovisual and verbal supports together with multimodality and augmented reality.
Scientifically validated
Empirically tested with more than 130 children.
Structured and sequenced
It guarantees learning with a guided and sequenced structure.
In Catalan
It is implemented entirely in the Catalan language and enhances its use.
Oriented to professionals
It offers audiovisual explanations on how to implement the intervention.
Easy and intuitive
It guarantees that the implementation of the intervention is simple and intuitive.
SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE
The Multimodal Narrative intervention program (MMN) has been designed based on scientific evidence and in close collaboration with teams of teachers and speech-language therapists to adapt it to the Catalan educational context. The MMN intervention has been scientifically validated in the classroom and individual support with more than 130 children. The results show that in both implementation contexts the children significantly improve their oral narrative skills after the intervention. In addition, in the classroom context there has also been an increase in the oral use of Catalan in the case of bilingual children.
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THE STORIES
Our main character is Meloix, a very friendly capybara. Specifically, at StoryTIC we work with three different stories:
– Meloix and the bathtub
– Meloix and the bananas
– Meloix and the bus
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THE STORYTELLER
Our storyteller is Caterina. The storyteller uses multimodality a lot to retell the stories.
THE QUESTION-ANSWER STRATEGY
The question-answer sequence consists of retelling the story in a sequenced and structured way. Each of these questions is always accompanied by icons, in order to provide a visual reference for each of the key elements of the story.
Protagonist
Resolution
Problem
End
Attempt
Emotions
AUGMENTED REALITY
Augmented reality is another pedagogical strategy that StoryTIC incorporates so that the intervention has a more playful component for children.
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