Michael Rosen

A place where I'll post up some thoughts and ideas - especially on literature in education, children's literature in general, poetry, reading, writing, teaching and thoughts on current affairs.

Wednesday, 28 February 2018

Writing for pleasure 8 - what have I left out?

Writing for Pleasure 7 Distribution

Tuesday, 27 February 2018

Writing for Pleasure 6a - Invention - example

Writing for Pleasure 6 - Invention

Monday, 26 February 2018

Writing for Pleasure 5 - Imitating

Sunday, 25 February 2018

Writing for pleasure 4 - investigating

Friday, 23 February 2018

Writing for pleasure 3 - collecting language

Tuesday, 20 February 2018

Writing for Pleasure 2

Writing for Pleasure 1

Sunday, 18 February 2018

What is education for? The Tories know.

How to be rich

We at Metrics Incorporated

The result of 'metrics' taking over the world.

Saturday, 17 February 2018

How to blame the victim by Daniel Hannan MP

Friday, 16 February 2018

Times tables testing

How education is getting 'better'

Thursday, 8 February 2018

It's for real: 'improving sentences' by making them worse, the GPS/SPaG way.

How to open conversations about books

Books, reading out loud, browsing, choosing, talking...

Literature is about ideas and feelings.

Progress from KS1 SATs to MA at university

The data have landed

Attainment gap explained

Writing at the expected level

They're not school classes anymore, they're spreadsheets.

Saturday, 3 February 2018

Weasel Word number 103: 'affordable' housing

Terminology wars in 'grammar'

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