Michael Rosen's Poetry Videos: How To Get Children Writing and Performing Poems Too

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 non-fiction author. He has run poetry workshops for children for over 40 years and was Childrens Laureate from 2007-2009. 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.