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.
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.
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".
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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
