Laura Hutchins

Michael Rosen STICKERS and STUFF - teespring.com/stores/michael-rosen-merch

Check out Michaels website www.michaelrosen.co.uk

for news, updates, and fun, as well as great homeschooling UK storytime resources and ideas like these.

The Michael Rosen Reading for Pleasure book - amzn.to/2WkkUxb

Why not share this clip - learn about technology

Discuss performance poetry - what does it make you think?

Look at other Michael Rosen poems - which ones do you like, why?

How does Michaels work compare and contrast with another poet?

Teachers or Homeschoolers - work with your kids to create your own performance piece for selected poems.

Pupils could create their own story poems about favourite foods, strict teachers or a Bear Hunt.

Use this as a inspiration to start independent research on Michael Rosen.

"I wrote a book of poems for children called The Hypnotiser some years ago and then it went out of print. I couldnt get anyone to reprint it, so I asked my son Joe to film me performing the book." -

Noice!

Michael Rosen

Who Is Michael Rosen?

My first book for children was called Mind Your Own Business and it came out in 1974. Quentin Blake did wonderful line drawings for it.

Ever since then, I’ve been doing these things:

Writing books

Writing articles for newspapers and magazines

Going to schools, libraries and theatres and performing the poems in my books

Helping children write poems and stories

Making radio programmes, mostly about words, language or books

Appearing on TV, either reading books, or talking about books

Teaching at universities about children’s literature

Running workshops for teachers about poetry

In any week, I might be doing all of these things! To tell the truth, I don’t really know what I’m doing tomorrow, unless I look in my diary to see.

Review of The Hypnotiser

Right class 6, RIGHT CLASS 6, Im talking, Im talking, I want complete quiet and that includes you, David Alexander, yes you... The Outing, by Michael Rosen, just one of the fantastic and hilarious poems from his short story and poetry collection The Hypnotiser. This particular poem was read to me as a young child in primary school time and time again. Each time the names in the poem were changed to the names of the pupils in my class. It never got old, or less hilarious and I wouldnt hesitate in reading this to my future classes during my teaching career.

Other great poems from this collection include The Car Trip; a highlight of the sibling chaos that goes on in the back of the car when Mum is driving: He started it. I didnt. He started it..., Tomato 1; the gruelling ordeal of being given a tomato to eat by your mother and you simply just hate tomatoes, and Tidy Your Room; every childs nightmare. Each and every poem and short story relates to children through typical experiences that most would have endured. This book enlightens childrens love and enthusiasm for poetry, an almost forgotten about genre for most children; a runner up to fiction books.

This book can have many uses in the classroom; appropriate for children in Key Stage Two it can be read by the teacher at the end of the day during story time, like in my own experience at primary school. Or, during a poetry topic in Literacy, this book could model fun, interesting, age appropriate poetry that will inspire children to write their own poems. Likewise for shared reading; this book would be fantastic to put under the visualiser and look through with the class at the how poems are written, their structure, do they rhyme? do they tell a story? All sorts of things can be addressed with the class as a whole.

This book needs to be shown to children, whether at school on the class bookshelf, or online where you can find video clips of Michael Rosen performing these poems; a great filler for those odd five minutes that arise during the busy school day. A Must read, not just for children but teachers as well!

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