Express Delivery Michael Rosen

Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right levelWhat’s it like to be a writer, radio presenter and performer? Read all about Michael Rosen’s life and find out what he was like as a boy, what he got up to at school and how he became a famous poet in this fascinating autobiography.Sapphire/Band 16 books books offer longer reads to develop children’s sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically.Text type: An autobiography.The timeline on pages 54-55 track the major events of Michael Rosen’s life that led to him becoming a successful writer.Additional information retrieval devices such as a glossary and index can be evaluated for their usefulness as children develop critical reading skillsCurriculum links: History: What we can learn about recent history from studying the life of a famous person.This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

Michael Rosen is well-known as a poet and broadcaster and was Children’s Laureate from 2007-2009. He has devoted his life to entertaining children with his writing and performances and to informing teachers, librarians, parents, publishers and government agencies of the importance of supporting children’s books.