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Descriptosaurus Story Writing
Language in Action for Ages 5–9
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This book is ideal for KS1 and KS2 primary English teachers, literacy coordinators, and parents seeking to enhance children's language, grammar, and punctuation skills alongside creative writing development.
This book provides a resource for younger pupils that expand their descriptive vocabulary and provide them with models that demonstrate ‘language in action’, in a genre that is familiar to children ages 5-9.
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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 book is designed to provide young pupils with the opportunity to see how a text is constructed using words, phrases and sentences. This exciting new resource:
- Provides vocabulary for setting, character, 'show not tell' and sensory descriptions with clearly defined progression
- Demonstrates how to use this vocabulary in different contexts using set sentence structures
- Offers four model narratives written in different styles and levels of difficulty
- Presents modelled sentences with exercises so that pupils can expand their vocabulary
- Enables young pupils to develop their understanding of how sentences are constructed and become more confident about using these skills in their own story writing
This is an ideal resource to dramatically improve children's knowledge and understanding of language, grammar, and punctuation for all KS1 and KS2 primary English teachers, literacy coordinators, and parents. This easily accessible guide will also be helpful for teachers to use in preparation for Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (SPAG) alongside a creative writing task.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780367559113
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 18 December 2020
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Routledge
Illustration: 10 Halftones, black and white; 10 Illustrations, black and white
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 210.0mm
Height: 297.0mm
Weight: 840g
Pages: 226
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About the Author
Alison Wilcox is a Law and Economics graduate from Cardiff University, who worked as a primary-school teacher for many years. Whilst teaching, she developed Descriptosaurus to scaffold and improve children’s creative writing, with dramatic results, and she made the decision to give up full-time teaching to work on the Descriptosaurus series. To keep up to date with current practices in schools, Alison undertakes brief teaching assignments, works with schools to develop new resources and conducts workshops for schools and teaching alliances.
Adam Bushnell was a primary-school teacher and is now a published author of both fiction and academia. He has had fifteen books published for children and six books published for teachers on the teaching of writing. He works as a ‘visiting author’ in the UK and internationally, delivering writing workshops for primary school aged children. He also offers CPD (Continuing Professional Development) for schools and delivers keynote speeches at conferences about reading and writing in education.
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