Descriptosaurus Grammar Companion Ages 9 to 12

ISBN-13: 9781032662855 / Twarda / 2024 / 264 str.

UK) Wilcox Alison (School writer and researcher

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

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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.’