Descriptosaurus punctuation in action year 3 [electronic resource] : Ruby Red / Alison Wilcox

Author: Wilcox, Alison
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2021.
Physical Description: 1 online resource

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Acknowledgements Introduction PART A -- THE STORY OF RUBY REDCHAPTER 1 Ruby Red CHAPTER 2 The Forest CHAPTER 3 The Berries CHAPTER 4 The Wolf PART B -- LEARNING PUNCTUATION WITH THE CHARACTERSCHAPTER 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

Summary

You've heard of Little Red Riding Hood - now meet her cousin, Ruby Red, who makes the same journey through the forest to visit her granny. However, Ruby Red's story takes a strange turn when she also meets a wolf in the forest. In grave danger, lost in the dark forest and sick from eating poisonous berries, Ruby learns the importance of listening to her parents, keeping her promises and not judging everyone by the actions of one member of a group. Join Ruby on her journey as she writes the story of her meeting with the wolf and as she learns with the assistance of the wolf and Punctua, the Fairy Godmother of Writing, to punctuate properly and become a bestselling author. 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 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.

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9781000428827 (electronic bk.)
1000428826 (electronic bk.)
9781000428872 (ePub ebook)
1000428877 (ePub ebook)
9781003190479 (ebook)
1003190472 (ebook)
9781032040868
1032040866
9781032040875
1032040874

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