Descriptive Language Kit
Inform and inspire. This series provides a powerful springboard to writing skills' development with its collection of short, engaging texts specifically designed to exemplify descriptive language. Students get to explore and discuss the language features – ranging from imagery and metaphors to effective sentence starters and structures – and think critically about each text. Photocopiable resources to encourage goal-setting, sharing, reflection, and self and peer evaluation are included.
Ages: 5-12 years
About the Author
Selma Owbridge
An experienced and passionate teacher, Selma Owbridge has enjoyed teaching at all primary levels for the last 18 years, as well as working as a literacy leader/facilitator for an initiative with the New Zealand Ministry of Education. Selma is always thinking up new ideas and resources to help children learn. After completing a Computer and Business Administration Diploma, she wanted to use the computer knowledge she had gained to write inquiry learning books to support and teach children to use the computer skills they need to present all their wonderful ideas to an audience.