Descriptosaurus: Supporting Creative Writing for Ages 8–14

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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. 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. 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: 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.

Norestformrz* So would you let a child write a story and then refer to the lists of adjectives etc?

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A compilation of recent research and policy developments in primary literacy to support evidence-based practice. 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.

An explanation as to why descriptive writing is important and its relevance to the new KS2, KS3 and GCSE curriculums 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. 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 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? 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).

I've seen Descriptosaurus recommended on here a few times to help with creative writing. I've got it but I'm not entirely sure how to use it.