Alison Wilcox

Descriptosaurus Grammar Companion Ages 9 to 12 (eBook, ePUB)

A Language Toolkit and Support for Creative Writing

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Descriptosaurus Grammar Companion is a flexible grammar toolkit based on current research about effective strategies for teaching grammar tools and sentence construction (investigation, imitation, combining and expansion). It provides teachers and students with a road map that makes learning about sentence construction and revision visible.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 446
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003830481
• Artikelnr.: 69658201

Autorenporträt

Alison Wilcox has extensive teaching experience in schools in England and Scotland. Colleagues describe her methods as "innovative and inspirational to even the most reluctant of writers".

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART A - INVESTIGATIONS
CHAPTER 1 Chunking into Sentence Parts
CHAPTER 2 Subject and Predicate
CHAPTER 3 Writing Craft Tools
CHAPTER 4 Investigative Approach
CHAPTER 5 Prepositional Phrases
CHAPTER 6 Adverb Clauses
CHAPTER 7 Relative Clauses
CHAPTER 8 Participial Phrases
PART B - IMITATING
CHAPTER 9 Sentence Imitation Method
CHAPTER 10 Expanded Noun Phrases
CHAPTER 11 Opening and Delayed Adjectives
CHAPTER 12 Opening and Delayed Adverbs
CHAPTER 13 Compound Verbs
CHAPTER 14 Examples from Literature
PART C - SENTENCE COMBINING
CHAPTER 15 Sentence Combining Method
CHAPTER 16 Expanded Noun Phrases
CHAPTER 17 Adverb Clauses
CHAPTER 18 Relative Clauses
CHAPTER 19 Participial Phrases
CHAPTER 20 Creating a Sentence Combining exercise from a text
CHAPTER 21 Sentence Combining - Poetry
CHAPTER 22 Sentence Combining - Non-fiction
CHAPTER 23 Sentence Combining - History: The Blitz WWII
CHAPTER 24 Sentence Combining - Settings
CHAPTER 25 De-Combining Sentences and Paragraphs
PART D - SENTENCE EXPANSION
CHAPTER 26 Sentence Expansion Method
CHAPTER 27 A Writer's Lens - Sentence Expansion
CHAPTER 28 Show not Tell: Warm-up Exercises
Bibliography