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Descriptosaurus Punctuation in Action Years 4-6: Jack and the Crystal Fang

Wilcox Alison
Innbundet / 2021 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781032040936
Publisert
2021-09-21
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
490 gr
Høyde
246 mm
Bredde
174 mm
Aldersnivå
G, P, 01, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
166

Forfatter
Wilcox Alison

Om bidragsyterne

Alison Wilcox is the author of the Descriptosaurus series and has 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.

Descriptosaurus Punctuation in Action Years 4-6: Jack and the Crystal Fang

Wilcox Alison
Innbundet / 2021 / Engelsk
Wilcox Alison
Innbundet / 2021 / Engelsk
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The only cure for a deadly plague sweeping the country is the crystal fang of a dragon that has terrorised the surrounding countryside for many years. Until now, the location of its den on Dragon Ridge Mountain has remained a mystery. In a race against time, Jack battles through a storm to reach the top of Dragon Ridge Mountain. With Merlin to guide him, Jack enters the dragon’s den and comes face to face with the monstrous beast. This is a story of courage, magic and one boy’s brave quest to fulfil a destiny foretold by the legends of long ago.Join Jack on his journey as he writes the story with the assistance of the magician Merlin and Punctua, the Fairy Godmother of Writing, to punctuate properly and become a bestselling author.Descriptosaurus Punctuation in Action Years 4–6: Jack and the Crystal Fang is part of a short series of age-specific, beautifully illustrated stories that can be read for pleasure and/or used as a contextualised resource, containing a step-by-step guide to teaching punctuation. The characters from each story are used to demonstrate a range of punctuation rules in a fun and engaging way appropriate to the book’s age group. Areas covered include: formulating punctuation rules. the use of misconceptions to highlight common errors. teaching tips to provide a punctuation model.The book explores the impact of punctuation on reading, understanding, meaning and effect, and can be used as a basis for pupils’ own punctuation or included in their ‘Writer’s Toolkit.’ These new Descriptosaurus stories are an indispensable teaching aid for making punctuation fun for all primary teachers and literacy coordinators.
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Descriptosaurus Punctuation in Action Years 4-6: Jack and the Crystal Fang is part of a short series of age specific, beautifully illustrated stories that can be read for pleasure and/or used as a contextualized resource, containing a step by step guide to teaching punctuation.
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Acknowledgements Introduction PART A – THE STORY JACK AND THE CRYSTAL FANGCHAPTER 1 The Legend CHAPTER 2 Dragon Ridge Mountain CHAPTER 3 The Storm CHAPTER 4 Merlin CHAPTER 5 The Portal CHAPTER 6 The Cave CHAPTER 7 The Dragon CHAPTER 8 The Escape CHAPTER 9 The Great Story-Writing Rebellion PART B – LEARNING PUNCTUATION WITH THE CHARACTERS: Level 1CHAPTER 10 Meet the Characters Section 1: Jack Section 2: Merlin Section 3: Punctua (Fairy Godmother of Writing) CHAPTER 11 Editing a Story QUEST 1: (Ending the Period Drought in the Unit of Sense) Section 1: Writing and Editing Tips Section 2: Sentences CHAPTER 12 Capital Letters QUEST 2: (BaTtLE oF ThE caPiTaLSe) Section 1: Beginning of a sentence/names of people Section 2: Names of places Section 3: Days of the Week & Months of the Year Section 4: Capital Letters Editing Checklist CHAPTER 13 Question Marks QUEST 3: (Interrogation in the Centre of Questions) CHAPTER 14 Exclamation Marks QUEST 4: (The Quest for Excitement at Shrieking Point) CHAPTER 15 Inverted Commas (Speech Marks) QUEST 5: (The Quest for Quotation, the ‘God of Speech’) Section 1: When and How to Use Section 2: How to punctuate inside the Speech Marks CHAPTER 16 Apostrophes QUEST 6: (The Search for the Apostrophes’ Attachments) Section 1: Possession Section 2: Plural nouns ending in ‘s’ Section 3: Singular nouns ending in ‘s’ QUEST 7: (The Apostrophe Mystr’ry of the Missing Letters) Section 4: Contraction/missing letters Section 5: It’s/its; they’re/ their; you’re/your Section 6: Editing Checklist CHAPTER 17 Commas QUEST 8: (The confusing, bemusing, baffling List Comma Mystery) Section 1: Commas in a list QUEST 9: (Separated in the Break of Meaning) Section 2: To make the meaning clear Section 3: To separate parts of a sentence QUEST 10: (The, Plague of, the Comma, Splicers) Section 4: Comma Splicing Editing Checklist Punctuation Quests Level 1 Merlin’s Challenge Level 1: Punctuation Challenge PART C – LEARNING PUNCTUATION WITH THE CHARACTERS: Level 2CHAPTER 18 Brackets QUEST 1: (Quest for Explanations in the Land of Brackets) CHAPTER 19 Dashes QUEST 2: (Stress Test in the Dash of Emphasis Challenge) CHAPTER 20 Semicolons QUEST 3: (Quest for Connections in the linking Passages of Semicolons) CHAPTER 21 Colons QUEST 4: (Quest for the List of Introductions and Explanations in the Colon Tunnels) CHAPTER 22 Ellipsis QUEST 5: (Missing in the Land of Ellipsis) CHAPTER 23 Hyphens QUEST 6: (Quest for Meaning in the Land of Hyphen Fasteners) CHAPTER 24 Bullet Points QUEST 7: (Quest for Key Points at the Bullet Zone) Punctuation Quests Level 2 APPENDIX:QUEST 8: Merlin’s Challenge: Check-up for the Plague of the Comma Splicers Punctua’s Challenge: Experimenting with Punctuation Bullet Point Models: Job AdvertBullet Point Models: Quest Mission StatementReport Model: Missing Person Report Planning Templates: Job AdvertPlanning Templates: Quest Mission StatementPlanning Templates: Missing Person ReportPunctua’s Writing Challenge: An Alternative Ending to a Cliff-hangerApprentice Editor Certificate Level 1Master Editor Certificate Level 2
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The only cure for a deadly plague sweeping the country is the crystal fang of a dragon that has terrorised the surrounding countryside for many years. Until now, the location of its den on Dragon Ridge Mountain has remained a mystery. In a race against time, Jack battles through a storm to reach the top of Dragon Ridge Mountain. With Merlin to guide him, Jack enters the dragon’s den and comes face to face with the monstrous beast. This is a story of courage, magic and one boy’s brave quest to fulfil a destiny foretold by the legends of long ago.Join Jack on his journey as he writes the story with the assistance of the magician Merlin and Punctua, the Fairy Godmother of Writing, to punctuate properly and become a bestselling author.Descriptosaurus Punctuation in Action Years 4–6: Jack and the Crystal Fang is part of a short series of age-specific, beautifully illustrated stories that can be read for pleasure and/or used as a contextualised resource, containing a step-by-step guide to teaching punctuation. The characters from each story are used to demonstrate a range of punctuation rules in a fun and engaging way appropriate to the book’s age group. Areas covered include: formulating punctuation rules. the use of misconceptions to highlight common errors. teaching tips to provide a punctuation model.The book explores the impact of punctuation on reading, understanding, meaning and effect, and can be used as a basis for pupils’ own punctuation or included in their ‘Writer’s Toolkit.’ These new Descriptosaurus stories are an indispensable teaching aid for making punctuation fun for all primary teachers and literacy coordinators.
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Descriptosaurus Punctuation in Action Years 4-6: Jack and the Crystal Fang is part of a short series of age specific, beautifully illustrated stories that can be read for pleasure and/or used as a contextualized resource, containing a step by step guide to teaching punctuation.
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Acknowledgements Introduction PART A – THE STORY JACK AND THE CRYSTAL FANGCHAPTER 1 The Legend CHAPTER 2 Dragon Ridge Mountain CHAPTER 3 The Storm CHAPTER 4 Merlin CHAPTER 5 The Portal CHAPTER 6 The Cave CHAPTER 7 The Dragon CHAPTER 8 The Escape CHAPTER 9 The Great Story-Writing Rebellion PART B – LEARNING PUNCTUATION WITH THE CHARACTERS: Level 1CHAPTER 10 Meet the Characters Section 1: Jack Section 2: Merlin Section 3: Punctua (Fairy Godmother of Writing) CHAPTER 11 Editing a Story QUEST 1: (Ending the Period Drought in the Unit of Sense) Section 1: Writing and Editing Tips Section 2: Sentences CHAPTER 12 Capital Letters QUEST 2: (BaTtLE oF ThE caPiTaLSe) Section 1: Beginning of a sentence/names of people Section 2: Names of places Section 3: Days of the Week & Months of the Year Section 4: Capital Letters Editing Checklist CHAPTER 13 Question Marks QUEST 3: (Interrogation in the Centre of Questions) CHAPTER 14 Exclamation Marks QUEST 4: (The Quest for Excitement at Shrieking Point) CHAPTER 15 Inverted Commas (Speech Marks) QUEST 5: (The Quest for Quotation, the ‘God of Speech’) Section 1: When and How to Use Section 2: How to punctuate inside the Speech Marks CHAPTER 16 Apostrophes QUEST 6: (The Search for the Apostrophes’ Attachments) Section 1: Possession Section 2: Plural nouns ending in ‘s’ Section 3: Singular nouns ending in ‘s’ QUEST 7: (The Apostrophe Mystr’ry of the Missing Letters) Section 4: Contraction/missing letters Section 5: It’s/its; they’re/ their; you’re/your Section 6: Editing Checklist CHAPTER 17 Commas QUEST 8: (The confusing, bemusing, baffling List Comma Mystery) Section 1: Commas in a list QUEST 9: (Separated in the Break of Meaning) Section 2: To make the meaning clear Section 3: To separate parts of a sentence QUEST 10: (The, Plague of, the Comma, Splicers) Section 4: Comma Splicing Editing Checklist Punctuation Quests Level 1 Merlin’s Challenge Level 1: Punctuation Challenge PART C – LEARNING PUNCTUATION WITH THE CHARACTERS: Level 2CHAPTER 18 Brackets QUEST 1: (Quest for Explanations in the Land of Brackets) CHAPTER 19 Dashes QUEST 2: (Stress Test in the Dash of Emphasis Challenge) CHAPTER 20 Semicolons QUEST 3: (Quest for Connections in the linking Passages of Semicolons) CHAPTER 21 Colons QUEST 4: (Quest for the List of Introductions and Explanations in the Colon Tunnels) CHAPTER 22 Ellipsis QUEST 5: (Missing in the Land of Ellipsis) CHAPTER 23 Hyphens QUEST 6: (Quest for Meaning in the Land of Hyphen Fasteners) CHAPTER 24 Bullet Points QUEST 7: (Quest for Key Points at the Bullet Zone) Punctuation Quests Level 2 APPENDIX:QUEST 8: Merlin’s Challenge: Check-up for the Plague of the Comma Splicers Punctua’s Challenge: Experimenting with Punctuation Bullet Point Models: Job AdvertBullet Point Models: Quest Mission StatementReport Model: Missing Person Report Planning Templates: Job AdvertPlanning Templates: Quest Mission StatementPlanning Templates: Missing Person ReportPunctua’s Writing Challenge: An Alternative Ending to a Cliff-hangerApprentice Editor Certificate Level 1Master Editor Certificate Level 2
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781032040936
Publisert
2021-09-21
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
490 gr
Høyde
246 mm
Bredde
174 mm
Aldersnivå
G, P, 01, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
166

Forfatter
Wilcox Alison

Om bidragsyterne

Alison Wilcox is the author of the Descriptosaurus series and has 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.

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