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

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