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Cirque Du Freak by Darren Shan | Reading Rocks Review | Danegrove Primary | Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
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Check out Michael's website for news, updates, and fun, as well as great homeschooling UK resources and ideas like these.
Why not share this clip - learn about technology
You could do your own book review, think about the plot, the setting and characters.
Discuss performance poetry - what does it make you think?
Look at other Michael Rosen poems - which ones do you like, why?
How does Michael's 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.
This year Michael is working with LitFilmFest on 'Reading Rocks Reviews' to help children read and review their own books in class! This month, Danegrove Primary review 'Cirque Du Freak' by Darren Shan. What do you think of their ideas?
Your class can get involved (and maybe get a response from Michael!) by using the free writing unit at litfilmfest.com/reading.
You'll join Michael Rosen and other famous authors such as Malorie Blackman, Liz Pichon, David Almond and Frank Cotterell-Boyce to learn about books and how to review them in the best way possible.
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.
You can safely browse more videos like Michael Rosen Chocolate Cake on the Official Michael Rosen channel youtube.com/MichaelRosenOfficial
Cirque Du Freak by Darren Shan | Reading Rocks Review | Danegrove Primary | Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
michaelrosen.co.uk
Check out Michael's website for news, updates, and fun, as well as great homeschooling UK resources and ideas like these.
Why not share this clip - learn about technology
You could do your own book review, think about the plot, the setting and characters.
Discuss performance poetry - what does it make you think?
Look at other Michael Rosen poems - which ones do you like, why?
How does Michael's 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.
This year Michael is working with LitFilmFest on 'Reading Rocks Reviews' to help children read and review their own books in class! This month, Danegrove Primary review 'Cirque Du Freak' by Darren Shan. What do you think of their ideas?
Your class can get involved (and maybe get a response from Michael!) by using the free writing unit at litfilmfest.com/reading.
You'll join Michael Rosen and other famous authors such as Malorie Blackman, Liz Pichon, David Almond and Frank Cotterell-Boyce to learn about books and how to review them in the best way possible.
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.
