Jonny Walker Michael Rosen's Poetry Videos: How To Get Children Writing and

This is a guide for teachers on how to support children to write and perform poems that matter to them it shares creative ways to harness the classroom potential of the Kids Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen YouTube channel. It is a practical and supportive handbook, put together by a practising teacher, and it suggests some ways that fellow teachers can create enriching writing communities with and for their students. Jonny Walker is a primary school teacher based in Newham, East London. He runs poetry and creative writing projects which connect pupils and teachers across local groups of collaborative schools these include residential poetry retreats, KS2/3 childrens writing networks, and initiatives to promote the teaching of mythology and classics in the primary school. Michael Rosen is a poet, broadcaster, novelist and nonfiction author. He has run poetry workshops for children for over 40 years, and was Childrens Laureate from 20072009. He is Professor of Childrens Literature, at Goldsmiths, University of London where he teaches critical approaches to childrens books and supervises students projects on encouraging reading and writing. | Jonny Walker Michael Rosen's Poetry Videos: How To Get Children Writing and