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 31 July 2024

Goldsmiths University of London - strike

My union branch ie Goldsmiths UCU has voted for indefinite strike action. We are faced with something like 95 redundancies with department...

Thursday 27 June 2024

Can poetry (and other literature) help with recovering from distress and trauma? A schools perspective

These are notes and thoughts as part of the talk I gave at the Northern Education Show today on 'Reading, Writing and Recovery'. T...

Wednesday 12 June 2024

This year's KS2 Grammar, punctuation and spelling test - analysed.

OK, it's time for my annual analysis of the Grammar test that is given to Key Stage 2 children (that's 10 and 11 year olds) in Engla...

Thursday 6 June 2024

Teaching sentences, but what is a sentence? What's happened to 'the sentence'? Does it matter?

When we think of written English in education, we instinctively think of sentences. It's what I was taught, my children have been taug...

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