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Descriptosaurus Personal Writing: The Writing Process in Action [Pehme köide]

(School writer and researcher, UK)
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 188 pages, kõrgus x laius: 246x174 mm, kaal: 240 g, 1 Line drawings, color; 7 Halftones, color; 8 Illustrations, color
  • Ilmumisaeg: 30-Dec-2021
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1032105119
  • ISBN-13: 9781032105116
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 188 pages, kõrgus x laius: 246x174 mm, kaal: 240 g, 1 Line drawings, color; 7 Halftones, color; 8 Illustrations, color
  • Ilmumisaeg: 30-Dec-2021
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1032105119
  • ISBN-13: 9781032105116
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Märksõnad:
"Descriptosaurus Personal Writing provides young writers with an opportunity to link their personal lives and school experiences and gives writing a meaningful and personal context. It is a resource that will guide and scaffold students to produce vivid,powerful, descriptive and meaningful personal text and, acting as a springboard for other genres, will dramatically improve the quality of their writing in all areas. It provides a detailed step-by-step guide through the writing process, by using a personal narrative to develop the skills, knowledge and understanding of writing a text. It demonstrates different techniques and provides useful tips and suggestions on how to revise a text and transform it into a vivid, powerful, descriptive personal narrative. With prompts, plans, methods and models for poetry and prose, this book helps tackle each stage of the writing process from planning and writing a first draft to revising and editing. Descriptosaurus Personal Writing is an ideal vehicle for welcoming and celebrating different cultures, experiences and stories into the writing curriculum: an ideal resource to dramatically improve children's writing for all KS2 primary and KS3 secondary English teachers, literacy coordinators and parents"--

Descriptosaurus Personal Writing provides young writers with an opportunity to link their personal lives and school experiences and gives writing a meaningful and personal context. It is a resource that will guide students to produce powerful and meaningful personal text and will dramatically improve the their writing.

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"Are you looking for ways to support personal writing? This accessible book is packed with ideas to help young writers use their memories, feelings and experiences and lean on their lives. This will help to support their development as writers and build a writing community in your classroom. A community of diverse and engaged writers."

Teresa Cremin, Professor of Education, The Open University, UK

"Supporting young children to write their own personal story can be one of the most enjoyable acts in all of teaching. And yet, young children require ample support to find their voice and to craft a compelling narrative. Alison Wilcox, in her book, Descriptosaurus Personal Writing, offers teachers a brilliantly accessible resource to help with that challenge of supporting young writers. By offering purposely prompts, exciting exemplification, along with accessible guidance, Wilcox offers teachers a timely tools help grow great young writers."

Alex Quigley, Author of Closing the Reading Gap and Closing the Vocabulary Gap "Are you looking for ways to support personal writing? This accessible book is packed with ideas to help young writers use their memories, feelings and experiences and lean on their lives. This will help to support their development as writers and build a writing community in your classroom. A community of diverse and engaged writers."

Teresa Cremin, Professor of Education, The Open University, UK

"Supporting young children to write their own personal story can be one of the most enjoyable acts in all of teaching. And yet, young children require ample support to find their voice and to craft a compelling narrative. Alison Wilcox, in her book, Descriptosaurus Personal Writing, offers teachers a brilliantly accessible resource to help with that challenge of supporting young writers. By offering purposeful prompts, exciting exemplification, along with accessible guidance, Wilcox provides teachers with a timely tool to help grow great young writers."

Alex Quigley, author of Closing the Reading Gap and Closing the Vocabulary Gap

Acknowledgements and dedication viii
Introduction 1(6)
The aim of the book
4(3)
1 The writing process
7(5)
2 Making learning in the writing process visible
12(5)
Teachers as coaches in the `writing community'
13(4)
3 Personal narrative writing: a springboard for other forms of writing
17(9)
Personal narrative: a springboard for other genres
18(1)
The power of poetry: a stimulus for other writing, a vehicle for expression and practising the writing craft
18(4)
Re-purposing personal narrative writing
22(1)
Persuasion
23(1)
Other ideas
23(1)
Final thoughts
24(2)
4 What is personal narrative?
26(2)
Elements of personal narrative writing
26(2)
5 Getting started: a writing journal
28(11)
First thoughts: who are you?
30(9)
6 Prompts
39(6)
Memory list prompts
40(5)
7 External sources as writing prompts
45(13)
In the news
45(13)
1 Social media: friend or foe?
47(3)
2 Racism in sport: show it the red card
50(3)
3 Action for climate change
53(5)
8 Plot outlines
58(6)
Simple six-question outline template
61(1)
Simple six-question outline model
62(2)
9 Writing a first draft
64(3)
Rehearsing the story orally
64(1)
Writing the first draft
64(3)
10 The revision process
67(3)
Caution
69(1)
11 Revising action scenes
70(6)
Using slow-motion technique to build suspense
70(6)
12 Setting
76(16)
Describing an object, scene, landscape
77(5)
I would really like to go back to
82(3)
First Morning in Corfu
85(3)
Setting as part of a personal narrative
88(4)
13 Characters
92(14)
People watching
92(2)
Character planning: Rusty the Dog
94(1)
Using a photo and dialogue: Alfie Misses Out on a Piece of Bacon
95(1)
Character investigations
96(1)
Developing the skill of `show not tell': Rusty the Dog
97(2)
Innovating a character description
99(2)
Developing the skill of `show not tell': Mr Rogers
101(1)
Mr Rogers (Science: Tales of Torture)
102(1)
Second draft: Discovering a Writing Journal
103(3)
14 Dialogue
106(4)
Dialogue tags
106(2)
Action beats
108(1)
Revision
109(1)
15 Reflections
110(2)
Reflection starter
110(2)
16 Editing
112
Tips
112(1)
Editing model
113(1)
Editing punctuation
114
Appendix
117
Writing survey template
Writing survey model
The writing process from published writers
Modelled sentences: detail, flow, impact (DFI)
Rusty the Dog: a memoir
The Terrier Times
Mr Rogers: Science: Tales of Torture
Science: Tales of Torture: Messages
First Morning in Corfu
Sunrise on Corfu
Rwy'n Gartref [ I am home]: description
Stunning Staycation: The Gower Peninsula
I'll Call Mammy
Floodland: Found Poem by Alison Wilcox, drawing from the novel by Marcus Sedgwick
The Sock Thief: A Moment of Frustration
Negativity in the Media: An Angry Response
Spider's web planning template
Scene/image box plan template
Scene/image box plan model
Fiction planning template
Fiction planning model
Character prompt card
Alison's Book Club
Research, articles, books and websites
Alison Wilcox developed Descriptosaurus as a resource for her own teaching to scaffold and develop childrens creative writing, with dramatic results. The first Descriptosaurus book was published in 2009, and following its success, Alison gave up full-time teaching to research and write. Alison is now involved in several research projects, including working with the United Kingdom Literacy Association (UKLA) and the World Education Summit; working with schools to develop new resources; and conducting workshops for organisations, teaching alliances and schools.