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, 16 April 2018

The great linguist, M.A.K. Halliday has died.

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The great linguist, M.A.K. Halliday has died. His work used to be central to the way secondary English teachers treated language as 'lan...

Infected with superiority

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People who've led lives growing up in suburbs, in comfortable homes, going to schools with glorious playing fields, playing in orchestra...
Sunday, 4 March 2018

Is Education getting better?

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The way to convince people  that education is getting better  is to restrict education to what can be tested,  train teachers (or force...
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...
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