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.

Monday, 14 March 2016

Health alert: how fronted adverbial disease (F.A.D.) took over.

For people wondering what the heck I'm on about with 'fronted adverbials' - and why it matters is this: 1. Very young childr...

Sunday, 13 March 2016

The nonsense of the 'expanded noun phrase' as a way of getting to children to write 'well'.

(fro "Using mini whiteboards or strips of card, build a sentence that contains both a subject noun and an object noun, e...

Saturday, 12 March 2016

Scholemeister Gibbe tries to stem the tide of change in language

In the Saxon monasterye ye scholemeister Gibbe hears yonge man seyinge "They ware goode the beans, they ware.' Gibbe is much wrothe...

Nick Gibb: Here's another fine mess you've gotten me into

The catchphrase most used by Laurel and Hardy on film is: "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!" If you s...

Exclamations, Nick Gibb, rubbish grammar, rubbish test.

Here is the letter that Schools Minister for schools in England has written to one of the national newspapers. Below are my comment...

Thursday, 10 March 2016

This Poem is a Paper Bag

This poem is a paper bag. If you look inside it may look as if there's nothing in it but if you go on looking you're bound to ...

Poem: I Was Born in the Stone Age

I was born in the Stone Age. When I was at school, we didn't have chairs or desks, we sat on rocks, and we didn't have pa...

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