Description

 

Play The Story Talk Game to bond with and celebrate others, appreciate stories of all kinds, find inspiration actions, build communication skills, engage critical thinking, and to maximize comprehension, mindful listening, thinking and reflecting. The directions, die, question cards, wipe-off game board, wipe-off pens, and eraser packed in this fun book bag propel its players into critical thinking, focused listening, and easy respectful speaking. Communication with deeper understanding, many smiles, “to-take” inspiration actions and new stories to devour pop right out of this dynamic bag.

 The Story Talk Game: 12-102 Edition

The Story Talk Game is a communication and critical thinking game for family, couples, friends, parents and teens. Just when teens seem to shut down, couples can’t find what to talk about, family members are all in there own worlds, and students dread reading, this unique game can change all that. It brings any story and its players alive in a new dimension new of guided inspiration, heartfelt eye contact communication, and respectful acknowledgement and response to different perspectives. Highlights include:

• Played with ANY book, short story, movie, or TV series
• Unites players of all political, religious, and not religious groups
• Recharges talking, listening, and sharing something new and old for couples  
• Builds trust, self-confidence, positive actions, bonding, empathy, compassion, and understanding
• Engages critical thinking, meta-cognition (thinking about your thinking aka mindfulness) and higher order thinking skills
• Reveals the magic and inspiration of any well-loved or not-well-loved story

Critical Thinking Soars Playing The Story Talk Game 

The Story Talk Game players grow with critical thinking, self-discovery and others’ perspectives.

The Story Talk Game’s Higher Order Thinking Skills, HOTS, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-order_thinking , include application, synthesis, evaluation, and analysis. Sharing a story through this game builds transferable critical thinking skills in a most fun, efficient, and effective way. It engages meta-cognition, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacognitive_therapy ,  in every play, as it empowers players with this ability to think about one’s thinking and focus deeper, more precisely and best, most positively. Through this process, active reading and discussion lead to the most profound understanding and high level thinking and the empowerment to turn it on at any time.

The creator of The Story Talk Game, Reading Specialist, Teri Azar, uses it to focus, enliven, and deepen thought. She engages meta cognition,  talk and purpose of reading/movie groups of all shapes and sizes. Throughout her 39 year career the game dramatically increased genuine reading motivation, comprehension, critical thinking, school performance, and standardized test performance scores. She used the game in private and public schools, grades 1-college. A wonderful byproduct when playing, positive communication and understanding of others, become a consistent intrinsic reward . Strategies engaging  all-inclusive and respectful conversation makes it easy to speak your mind, even for the very shy.

Teri holds her BA, M.Ed., and Ell Certificate from UCLA. The game reflects her training in using multi-modality learning strategies to reach all students and her success in doing so in many educational settings. For more information contact Teri at 949 306-6238 or tazar@cox.net, or https://readingsolutions.netindex.php/contact-us/