Michael Rosen
Watch NATE video (28.6.2014) in which Michael Rosen endorses teachers as writers http://www.nate.org.uk/index.php?page=34&news=340
Watch Michael Rosen's lecture - the 1st Harold Rosen memorial lecture, 2012: “Beyond Recitation – Poetry and the arts in the curriculum”: CLICK HERE
Read Michael Rosen's blog
eg 11 May 2017 - on grammar teaching and testing
8. A key part of understanding grammar is making up new stuff.
"We can do this with imitation, parody, and invention. This is the best way to use our knowledge of language to improve writing. Ask any writer of any kind and they'll tell you (confess!) the many ways in which they've imitated and parodied others. This doesn't just apply to 'creative' writers of poems, stories, plays, scripts, songs but also the writers of instructions, ads, newspaper articles, headlines, blurbs, political speeches, telling jokes and so on. I'd suggest that a key part of learning about grammar can come this way. We can mix the use of the terms as a way of trying to describe the imitations and parodies with the actual process of writing those imitations and parodies. It's unwise and unhelpful of doing this in the old ways, 'let's think of a noun', as this is isolating words from their function."
Michael Rosen's 3 characteristics for meaningful and worthwhile writing:
1. A way of preserving the past on the writer's own terms
2. A way of reflecting on experienced ideas, and becoming both participants and observers of our lives and others
3. A way of opening up conversations with others.
(from DVD on Literacy Evolve Pearson 2009)
Watch Michael Rosen's lecture - the 1st Harold Rosen memorial lecture, 2012: “Beyond Recitation – Poetry and the arts in the curriculum”: CLICK HERE
Read Michael Rosen's blog
eg 11 May 2017 - on grammar teaching and testing
8. A key part of understanding grammar is making up new stuff.
"We can do this with imitation, parody, and invention. This is the best way to use our knowledge of language to improve writing. Ask any writer of any kind and they'll tell you (confess!) the many ways in which they've imitated and parodied others. This doesn't just apply to 'creative' writers of poems, stories, plays, scripts, songs but also the writers of instructions, ads, newspaper articles, headlines, blurbs, political speeches, telling jokes and so on. I'd suggest that a key part of learning about grammar can come this way. We can mix the use of the terms as a way of trying to describe the imitations and parodies with the actual process of writing those imitations and parodies. It's unwise and unhelpful of doing this in the old ways, 'let's think of a noun', as this is isolating words from their function."
Michael Rosen's 3 characteristics for meaningful and worthwhile writing:
1. A way of preserving the past on the writer's own terms
2. A way of reflecting on experienced ideas, and becoming both participants and observers of our lives and others
3. A way of opening up conversations with others.
(from DVD on Literacy Evolve Pearson 2009)