1st Edition
Descriptosaurus Grammar Companion Ages 9 to 12 A Language Toolkit and Support for Creative Writing
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
Biography
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".
