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, 15 September 2021

The Banks are Taking over our Universities. Why?

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What did I learn at my union meeting (UCU) at Goldsmiths University of London today? That the banks are taking over universities. How is thi...

Tuesday, 7 September 2021

How we read: reading processes

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There have been many attempts to describe the many things we do as we read. See for example the 'matrix' p 360-361 in 'Underst...

Sunday, 8 August 2021

How and why this bit of 'school grammar' is wrong.

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The National Curriculum asks primary school children in England to learn that there are four types of sentence: statement, question, command...

Sunday, 25 July 2021

How can a personal response method lead to knowledge about text?

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See 'Understanding Teenagers' Reading', Jack Thomson, Ch. 4 'Exploring Response', Ch. 5 'Practice: Examples of Teac...

Tuesday, 13 July 2021

The Pandemic - personal, mental, physical, social, philosophical, political. For me, it's all one.

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The pandemic has touched us in a wholesale, total way: it's affected our bodies, our minds, the units we live in and with, our places of...

Thursday, 8 July 2021

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Here are some thoughts about writing stories. You may also find that some of these ideas work for other kinds of writing too. 1. One plac...

Some teaching ideas to do with language

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It only takes a moment's thought to remember that 'writing' is not simply or only one thing. It is not writing a sentence. Wri...

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