Descriptosaurus Punctuation in Action Years 4-6: Jack and the Crystal Fang
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Descriptosaurus Punctuation in Action Years 4-6: Jack and the Crystal Fang

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The only cure for a deadly plague sweeping the country is the crystal fang of a dragon that has terrorised the surrounding countryside for many years. Until now, the location of its den on Dragon Ridge Mountain has remained a mystery. In a race against time, Jack battles through a storm to reach the top of Dragon Ridge Mountain. With Merlin to guide him, Jack enters the dragon’s den and comes face to face with the monstrous beast. This is a story of courage, magic and one boy’s brave quest to fulfil a destiny foretold by the legends of long ago. Join Jack on his journey as he writes the story with the assistance of the magician Merlin and Punctua, the Fairy Godmother of Writing, to punctuate properly and become a bestselling author. Descriptosaurus Punctuation in Action Years 4–6: Jack and the Crystal Fang is part of a short series of age-specific, beautifully illustrated stories that can be read for pleasure and/or used as a contextualised resource, containing a step-by-step guide to teaching punctuation. The characters from each story are used to demonstrate a range of punctuation rules in a fun and engaging way appropriate to the book’s age group. Areas covered include: formulating punctuation rules. the use of misconceptions to highlight common errors. teaching tips to provide a punctuation model. The book explores the impact of punctuation on reading, understanding, meaning and effect, and can be used as a basis for pupils’ own punctuation or included in their ‘Writer’s Toolkit.’ These new Descriptosaurus stories are an indispensable teaching aid for making punctuation fun for all primary teachers and literacy coordinators.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements Introduction PART A – THE STORY JACK AND THE CRYSTAL FANG CHAPTER 1 The Legend CHAPTER 2 Dragon Ridge Mountain CHAPTER 3 The Storm CHAPTER 4 Merlin CHAPTER 5 The Portal CHAPTER 6 The Cave CHAPTER 7 The Dragon CHAPTER 8 The Escape CHAPTER 9 The Great Story-Writing Rebellion PART B – LEARNING PUNCTUATION WITH THE CHARACTERS: Level 1 CHAPTER 10 Meet the Characters Section 1: Jack Section 2: Merlin Section 3: Punctua (Fairy Godmother of Writing) CHAPTER 11 Editing a Story QUEST 1: (Ending the Period Drought in the Unit of Sense) Section 1: Writing and Editing Tips Section 2: Sentences CHAPTER 12 Capital Letters QUEST 2: (BaTtLE oF ThE caPiTaLSe) Section 1: Beginning of a sentence/names of people Section 2: Names of places Section 3: Days of the Week & Months of the Year Section 4: Capital Letters Editing Checklist CHAPTER 13 Question Marks QUEST 3: (Interrogation in the Centre of Questions) CHAPTER 14 Exclamation Marks QUEST 4: (The Quest for Excitement at Shrieking Point) CHAPTER 15 Inverted Commas (Speech Marks) QUEST 5: (The Quest for Quotation, the ‘God of Speech’) Section 1: When and How to Use Section 2: How to punctuate inside the Speech Marks CHAPTER 16 Apostrophes QUEST 6: (The Search for the Apostrophes’ Attachments) Section 1: Possession Section 2: Plural nouns ending in ‘s’ Section 3: Singular nouns ending in ‘s’ QUEST 7: (The Apostrophe Mystr’ry of the Missing Letters) Section 4: Contraction/missing letters Section 5: It’s/its; they’re/ their; you’re/your Section 6: Editing Checklist CHAPTER 17 Commas QUEST 8: (The confusing, bemusing, baffling List Comma Mystery) Section 1: Commas in a list QUEST 9: (Separated in the Break of Meaning) Section 2: To make the meaning clear Section 3: To separate parts of a sentence QUEST 10: (The, Plague of, the Comma, Splicers) Section 4: Comma Splicing Editing Checklist Punctuation Quests Level 1 Merlin’s Challenge Level 1: Punctuation Challenge PART C – LEARNING PUNCTUATION WITH THE CHARACTERS: Level 2 CHAPTER 18 Brackets QUEST 1: (Quest for Explanations in the Land of Brackets) CHAPTER 19 Dashes QUEST 2: (Stress Test in the Dash of Emphasis Challenge) CHAPTER 20 Semicolons QUEST 3: (Quest for Connections in the linking Passages of Semicolons) CHAPTER 21 Colons QUEST 4: (Quest for the List of Introductions and Explanations in the Colon Tunnels) CHAPTER 22 Ellipsis QUEST 5: (Missing in the Land of Ellipsis) CHAPTER 23 Hyphens QUEST 6: (Quest for Meaning in the Land of Hyphen Fasteners) CHAPTER 24 Bullet Points QUEST 7: (Quest for Key Points at the Bullet Zone) Punctuation Quests Level 2 APPENDIX: QUEST 8: Merlin’s Challenge: Check-up for the Plague of the Comma Splicers Punctua’s Challenge: Experimenting with Punctuation Bullet Point Models: Job Advert Bullet Point Models: Quest Mission Statement Report Model: Missing Person Report Planning Templates: Job Advert Planning Templates: Quest Mission Statement Planning Templates: Missing Person Report Punctua’s Writing Challenge: An Alternative Ending to a Cliff-hanger Apprentice Editor Certificate Level 1 Master Editor Certificate Level 2


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781032040936
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 166
  • Width: 174 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1032040939
  • Publisher Date: 21 Sep 2021
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 490 gr


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