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Descriptosaurus Punctuation in Action Year 3: Ruby Red is part of a short series of age specific, beautifully illustrated stories that can be read for pleasure and/or used as a contextualized resource, containing a step by step guide to teaching punctuation.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART A – THE STORY OF RUBY RED
CHAPTER 1 Ruby Red
CHAPTER 2 The Forest
CHAPTER 3 The Berries
CHAPTER 4 The Wolf
PART B – LEARNING PUNCTUATION WITH THE CHARACTERS
CHAPTER 5 Meet the Characters
Section 1: Ruby
Section 2: Mr. Wolf (Lord of Lupus Forest)
Section 3: Punctua (Fairy Godmother of Writing)
CHAPTER 6 Editing a Story
Section 1: Writing and Editing Tips
Section 2: Sentences
Section 3: Comma Splicing
CHAPTER 7 Capital Letters
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 8 Question Marks
CHAPTER 9 Exclamation Marks
CHAPTER 10 Inverted Commas (Speech Marks)
Section 1: When and How to Use
Section 2: How to punctuate inside the Speech Marks
CHAPTER 11 Apostrophes
Section 1: Possession
Section 2: Plural nouns ending in ‘s’
Section 3: Singular nouns ending in ‘s’
Section 4: Contraction/missing letters
Section 5: It’s/its; they’re/ their; you’re/your
Section 6: Editing Checklist
CHAPTER 12 Commas
Section 1: Commas in a list
Section 2: To make the meaning clear
Section 3: To separate parts of a sentence
APPENDIX:
Checklist: Ruby’s Editing Checklist – Level 1
Checklist: Ruby’s Editing Checklist – Level 2
Lord Lupus’ Challenge: Correct the errors in the passage
Certificate: Editing Level 1
Certificate: Editing Level 2
About the author
Alison Wilcox is the author of the Descriptosaurus series and has worked as a primary school teacher for many years. Whilst teaching, she developed Descriptosaurus to scaffold and improve children’s creative writing, with dramatic results, and she made the decision to give up full-time teaching to work on the Descriptosaurus series. To keep up to date with current practices in schools, Alison undertakes brief teaching assignments, works with schools to develop new resources and conducts workshops for schools and teaching alliances.
Summary
Descriptosaurus Punctuation in Action Year 3: Ruby Red is part of a short series of age specific, beautifully illustrated stories that can be read for pleasure and/or used as a contextualized resource, containing a step by step guide to teaching punctuation.
