Descriptosaurus: Supporting Creative Writing for Ages 8–14

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Examples of different ways that descriptive writing can be used in traditional stories, films and travel brochures, and activities surrounding this

By publishing your document, the content will be optimally indexed by Google via AI and sorted into the right category for over 500 million ePaper readers on YUMPU. The... book/CD, will be so helpful to teachers who are struggling to think of different ways to say things and will enhance their planning and teaching. As a classroom resource it will be invaluable.’

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. It is described as a thematic expansion of a dictionary and a thesaurus. It provides writers with a comprehensive resource with which to experiment with language and sentence structure and build up narratives. This handbook is suitable for Key Stage 2 and 3 pupils and features lots of ideas for incorporating the task into class time including: 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. Once it's printed out, you could hand out the word mat as a visual aid to be kept on tables. This way, children can refer to it while they're writing and look for words that'll fit into their story. 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,

This word mat is a fantastic way to encourage your pupils to use science-fiction vocabulary in KS2. Focusing on how to describe a spaceship, it features a whole host of out-of-this-world vocabulary that your pupils can learn and use in their own writing.

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. The National Literacy Trust is a registered charity no. 1116260 and a company limited by guarantee no. 5836486 registered in England and Wales and a registered charity in Scotland no. SC042944. An explanation as to why descriptive writing is important and its relevance to the new KS2, KS3 and GCSE curriculums

A warm up for pupils to familiarise themselves with descriptive writing before writing their competition entries, including gamesBased 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. 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 Or, why not create a brilliant display all about the science-fiction genre? The word mat would look fantastic on display on your classroom wall and will help to create a positive and welcoming learning environment. Norestformrz* So would you let a child write a story and then refer to the lists of adjectives etc? 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: