Descriptosaurus: Supporting Creative Writing for Ages 8–14

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Our Descriptosaurus Time Machine competition provides pupils with a great opportunity for to expand and experiment with descriptive language, develop their ability to add more depth and colour to their writing. It also offers cross curricular links, particularly with history, and the opportunity for pupils to research their chosen time period. 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). 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. 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?

Skills Academy is a reading intervention programme for students in Years 7 & 8. It is currently unavailable to buy. 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 great way for children to develop their creative writing skills and general writing.

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. 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.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.

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: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.’ 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. 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.