Descriptosaurus Personal Writing: The Writing Process in Action

ISBN-13: 9781032105116 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 188 str.

Alison Wilcox

Opis

Descriptosaurus Personal Writing provides young writers with an opportunity to link their personal lives and school experiences and gives writing a meaningful and personal context. It is a resource that will guide students to produce powerful and meaningful personal text and will dramatically improve the their writing.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. The Writing Process  2. Making Learning Visible in the Writing Process  3. Personal Narrative Writing: A Springboard for Other Forms of Writing  4. What is Personal Narrative Writing?  5. Getting Started: A Writing Journal & Poetry  6. Prompts  7. External Sources as Writing Prompts  8. Plot Outlines  9. Writing a First Draft  10. The Revision Process  11. Revising Action Scenes  12. Setting  PART A: Setting as the Key Element  PART B: Setting as part of the Personal Narrative  13. Character  14. Dialogue  15. Reflections  16. Editing  APPENDIX 

O autorze

Alison Wilcox developed Descriptosaurus as a resource for her own teaching to scaffold and develop children’s creative writing, with dramatic results. The first Descriptosaurus book was published in 2009, and following its success, Alison gave up full-time teaching to research and write. Alison is now involved in several research projects, including working with the United Kingdom Literacy Association (UKLA) and the World Education Summit; working with schools to develop new resources; and conducting workshops for organisations, teaching alliances and schools.