Alison Wilcox

Descriptosaurus Grammar Companion Ages 9 to 12 is a flexible grammar toolkit based on current research about effective strategies for teaching grammar tools and sentence construction, such as investigation, imitation, combining, and expansion. It includes guidelines, exercises, scaffolds, and models, and by showing a clear progression route to the acquisition and consolidation of increasingly more complex grammar tools, it provides...

Descriptosaurus Grammar Companion Ages 9 to 12 is a flexible grammar toolkit based on current research about effective strategies for teaching grammar tools and sentence construction, including investigation, imitation, combining and expansion. It includes guidelines, exercises, scaffolds and models. By showing a clear progression route to the acquisition and consolidation of increasingly more complex grammar tools, it provides teachers and...

Descriptosaurus Story Writing provides a resource for younger pupils that will not only expand their descriptive vocabulary but also provide them with models that demonstrate 'language in action', in a genre that is popular and familiar to children aged 5–9. Providing the essential building blocks to create a narrative text, alongside contextualised banks of vocabulary, phrases, and sentence types, this...