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.

Showing posts with label language. Show all posts
Showing posts with label language. Show all posts

Saturday, 28 February 2026

An alternative view of children's literacy

Tuesday, 24 February 2026

Further evidence on why the 'fronted adverbial' is grammatical nonsense

Tuesday, 15 July 2025

Learning how to write and speak: 'how we break things down' may not always be the best way to 'build things up'

Monday, 14 July 2025

A brand new document on writing in primary schools, and they didn't ask writers to help them! Lols

Wednesday, 9 July 2025

Writing Framework: no poetry? no drama? Why not?

New Writing Framework - sentences. Not.

Tuesday, 8 July 2025

The New Writing Framework - first thoughts

Friday, 6 June 2025

Before Gove, Blunkett and Baker, there was no good research on the teaching of English...WHAT?!

Monday, 2 June 2025

Bernard Newsome and this question: What else is writing other than 'grammar'?

Sunday, 1 June 2025

10 points about the primary school grammar test .

Saturday, 31 May 2025

This year's grammar test for 10 and 11 year olds in England: my thoughts on the questions

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