Descriptosaurus: Supporting Creative Writing for Ages 8–14

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A warm up for pupils to familiarise themselves with descriptive writing before writing their competition entries, including games Norestformrz* So would you let a child write a story and then refer to the lists of adjectives etc? This free guide shows how the explicit teaching of vocabulary can be done within the context of a writing task. It will help younger pupils become enthusiastic and confident writers - willing and able to participate fully in the writing process as they move onto the next stage This book is a treasure trove of descriptive language... Highly recommended for both teachers and parents. I wish I’d had a copy of this book when I was a full time English teacher! Invest in a copy today; you’ll be glad you did."

Encourage your pupils to expand and experiment with descriptive language using the Descriptosaurus books as inspiration. Pupils are motivated to create their own piece of descriptive writing set in a particular period of time – past, present or future. The resources Descriptosaurus Time Machine - Ideas and activities to help you run competitions in school You might like this Journey into Space Word Mat too. It's full of even more science-fiction vocabulary for KS2!You can this resource as an independent writing prompt during an English or creative writing lesson. Having the word mat on hand provides children with lots of inspiration for their writing. They can use ambitious adjectives to describe futuristic settings and learn new and more powerful verbs too. The word mat also includes examples of effective phrases which use the vocabulary listed on the word mat. Seeing the words in context will help to develop your pupils' understanding and widen their vocabulary pool even further. Why not challenge your pupils to write sentences using a word from each of the columns? Descriptosaurus is the first book for creative writing that is a thematic expansion of a dictionary and a thesaurus. It provides children with a comprehensive resource with which to expand their descriptive vocabulary, experiment with language and sentence structure and build up narratives based around the following areas: An explanation as to why descriptive writing is important and its relevance to the new KS2, KS3 and GCSE curriculums A teaching resource suitable for Key Stage 2 and 3 with lots of ideas and activities to enable you to run a descriptive writing competition in your school.

Supporting schools and early years settings with literacy teaching resources to help enrich your lessons linking to literacy moments and awareness days throughout the academic year. Based on the popular Descriptosaurus series, pupils are challenged to focus on a scene and zoom in to describe the setting, the characters and the interaction between the two factors.Sample poems, wordbanks and model sentences to provide a step-by-step process for development of vocabulary and understanding of phrase, clause and sentence structure,, grammar and punctuation instruction and guidance, There are different versions of Descriptosaurus, one aimed at 5-9 year olds and the other 8-14 years (others for different types of writing action & adventure, fantasy, ghost stories etc). Descriptosaurus is an innovative book for creative writing. It is a resource that helps expand descriptive vocabulary in narratives based around the following areas: Settings, Characters And Creatures. If your child finds it hard to write this is book that will help them with ideas and set them off on the path to writign creatively.