ABSTRACT
This chapter provides children with a comprehensive resource with which to expand their descriptive vocabulary, experiment with language and sentence structure and build up narratives based around the topics related to 'adverbs'. The Descriptosaurus model was created and refined over a number of years as a result of feedback from children inside and outside the classroom as to the resources they required to inspire and assist them with their writing. This chapter focuses on adverbs that explain how, as these help to describe a character's emotions and resulting actions, movements and speech. They can also be used when using personification. An adverb is a word that describes a verb, an adjective or another adverb. Adverbs that describe when and where have been included in the section on 'Connectives'. Some of the adverbs are excited, happy, determined, sympathetic, caring, angry, aggressive, irritated, impatient, cold, evil, sly, arrogant, sad, miserable, nervous, shy and embarrassed.
