MICHAEL ROSEN: Encouraging children to write
Broadcaster, novelist and poet Michael Rosen was named the United Kingdom’s Children’s Laureate in 2007. He is an extremely articulate reading and writing advocate. When you have a few minutes, I think you would enjoy listening to him talk about poetry.
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Visit Michael Rosen’s web site:
http://www.michaelrosen.co.uk/
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Last fall, he had a fascinating conversation with Alice Miles and Helen Rumbelow at TIMESONLINE in which he talked about teaching and learning and writing and much else.
Read it here.
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Michael Rosen on poetry basics
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Back in 1970, Kenneth Koch published “Wishes, Lies, and Dreams,” one of the very best books on teaching poetry to write poetry.
