Descriptosaurus Grammar Companion Ages 9 to 12: A Language Toolkit and Support for Creative Writing

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I Investigations
	Chapter 1 Chunking into meaningful sentence parts
	Chapter 2 Subject and predicate
	Chapter 3 Writing craft tools
	Chapter 4 An investigative approach
	Chapter 5 Prepositional phrases
	Chapter 6 Adverb clauses
	Chapter 7 Relative (adjective) clauses
	Chapter 8 Participial phrases
Part II 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 Imitating examples from literature
Part III Sentence combining
	Chapter 15 Sentence combining method
	Chapter 16 Expanded noun phrases
	Chapter 17 Adverb clauses
	Chapter 18 Relative (adjective) clauses
	Chapter 19 Participial phrases
	Chapter 20 How to create a sentence combining exercise from a text
	Chapter 21 Poetry
	Chapter 22 Sentence combining using non-fiction fact sheets or texts
	Chapter 23 History: The Blitz in World War II
	Chapter 24 Settings
	Chapter 25 De-combining to correct errors and confused constructions
Part IV Sentence expansion
	Chapter 26 Sentence expansion method
	Chapter 27 Sentence expansion: A writer’s lens: ‘Show not tell’
	Chapter 28 ‘Show not tell’ warm-up exercises
Bibliography