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Do we teach children to love reading? Part 2

Sep 13, 2016 | Category: reading

In my last post I wrote about sociologist, Frank Furedi's views on reading and whether we do a good job of fostering a love of reading in young people. In this post I want to explore his view that rea...

#Michael Rosen #Frank Furedi #Ruth Mishkin

Fun is being "killed off"! Really?

Sep 06, 2016 | Category: Featured

Every now and then, children's author Michael Rosen writes a snarky open letter to whomever happens to be education secretary of the day castigating them for his bugbear du jour. His latest offering m...

#Michael Rosen #Justine Greening #tests

Can phonics help us spell better?

Jun 12, 2016 | Category: literacy

Children's author and high-profile opponent of phonics instruction, Michael Rosen recently wrote this blog casting doubt on the idea that learning phonics could help people spell. He was writing in re...

#phonics #Michael Rosen #Debbie Hepplewhite

Only phonics? A reader replies to Michael Rosen Part 2

Dec 29, 2015 | Category: reading

Following yesterday's post from Jacqui Moller-Butcher in which she responds to Michael Rosen's anti-phonics arguments, one of the complaints that has repeatedly emerged is the idea that phonics is not...

#phonics #Michael Rosen

Rubrics warp teaching and assessment

Dec 11, 2015 | Category: writing

Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.Machiavelli In a recent blog post, children's author, Michael Rosen has suggested how teachers should t...

#Greg Ashman #Michael Rosen #comparative judgement

Why teacher assessment is less fair than standardised testing

Nov 04, 2015 | Category: assessment

Tests Guns don't kill people, rappers do Goldie Lookin Chain I spent the day yesterday at the Department for Education thinking about how best to cut down on the "unnecessary workload" associated with...

#Daisy Christodolou #Robert Coe #Daniel Kahneman #Michael Rosen

If writing is magic, grammar is alchemy

Nov 09, 2015 | Category: writing

I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences. I like the feeling the everlasting feeling of sentences as they diagram themselves.Gertrude Stein Writing i...

#grammar #Michael Rosen