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?

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It's easy when writing things like this to tie everything up into neat programmes or lists of things to do. I've tried to make clear...

Writing for Pleasure 7 Distribution

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Distribution An important, significant part of this whole process is what we do with whatever it is the pupils write. Traditionally, most ...

Tuesday, 27 February 2018

Writing for Pleasure 6a - Invention - example

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I thought it would be a good idea to take an actual example of a piece of literature where you could work the paradigm-syntax method of imit...

Writing for Pleasure 6 - Invention

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Invention By this I mean 'creative', 'innovative', 'new', 'original' and applies in this case to all kinds o...

Monday, 26 February 2018

Writing for Pleasure 5 - Imitating

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I have no snobberies or fears about imitation. The simplest way to think about this is to see every piece of writing as something that is...

Sunday, 25 February 2018

Writing for pleasure 4 - investigating

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Investigating The guiding principle for most of the government's guidelines on how to investigate or explore language and literature ...

Friday, 23 February 2018

Writing for pleasure 3 - collecting language

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Collecting: 'Out there', every day, there are millions of examples of 'language-use' - spoken and written. We can think of ...

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