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The Michael Rosen Reading for Pleasure book - amzn.to/2WkkUxb
Check out Michael's website for news, updates, and fun, as well as great homeschooling UK storytime resources and ideas like these.
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Rosen The Missing | BOOK | Kids' Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen
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You could write your own family history, where did your mum and dad come from, what about their mums and dads?
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.
The Missing is a personal, powerful and resonant account of the Holocaust by one of this country's best-loved children’s authors.
By turns charming, shocking and heart-breaking, this is the true story of Michael Rosen’s search for his relatives who “went missing” during the Second World War – told through prose, poetry, maps and pictures.
When Michael was growing up, stories often hung in the air about his great-uncles: one was a clock-mender and the other a dentist. They were there before the war, his dad would say, and weren’t after.
Over many years, Michael tried to find out exactly what happened: he interviewed family members, scoured the internet, pored over books and traveled to America and France. The story he uncovered was one of terrible persecution – and it has inspired his poetry for years since. Here, poems old and new are balanced against an immensely readable narrative; both an extraordinary account and a powerful tool for talking to children about the Holocaust.
Who is Michael Rosen?
Michael Rosen started writing as a teenager, when his mother needed some poems for Radio programs she was making.
While at college, he wrote a play which was staged at the Royal Court theatre in London. Rosen's first book was published in 1974, and he is one of Britain's leading children's poets.
Michael Rosen launched the National Year of Literacy project, which encouraged children to help produce an Anthology to be used during the Literacy Hour in primary schools. Children ages 4-11 were invited to submit poems and illustrations featuring their favourite tree. Rosen also led the final judging sessions to decide which submissions would be included.
You can buy awesome Michael Rosen Merch here teespring.com/stores/michael-rosen-merch
You can safely browse more videos on the Michael Rosen channel youtube.com/MichaelRosenOfficial
The Michael Rosen Reading for Pleasure book - amzn.to/2WkkUxb
Check out Michael's website for news, updates, and fun, as well as great homeschooling UK storytime resources and ideas like these.
michaelrosen.co.uk
Rosen The Missing | BOOK | Kids' Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen
Why not share this clip - learn about technology
You could write your own family history, where did your mum and dad come from, what about their mums and dads?
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.
The Missing is a personal, powerful and resonant account of the Holocaust by one of this country's best-loved children’s authors.
By turns charming, shocking and heart-breaking, this is the true story of Michael Rosen’s search for his relatives who “went missing” during the Second World War – told through prose, poetry, maps and pictures.
When Michael was growing up, stories often hung in the air about his great-uncles: one was a clock-mender and the other a dentist. They were there before the war, his dad would say, and weren’t after.
Over many years, Michael tried to find out exactly what happened: he interviewed family members, scoured the internet, pored over books and traveled to America and France. The story he uncovered was one of terrible persecution – and it has inspired his poetry for years since. Here, poems old and new are balanced against an immensely readable narrative; both an extraordinary account and a powerful tool for talking to children about the Holocaust.
Who is Michael Rosen?
Michael Rosen started writing as a teenager, when his mother needed some poems for Radio programs she was making.
While at college, he wrote a play which was staged at the Royal Court theatre in London. Rosen's first book was published in 1974, and he is one of Britain's leading children's poets.
Michael Rosen launched the National Year of Literacy project, which encouraged children to help produce an Anthology to be used during the Literacy Hour in primary schools. Children ages 4-11 were invited to submit poems and illustrations featuring their favourite tree. Rosen also led the final judging sessions to decide which submissions would be included.
