Descriptosaurus Punctuation in Action Year 3: Ruby Red

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.

• 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

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