We are very excited to have started teaming up with some of the authors and illustrators of our ‘texts that teach’ (our BookWrites teaching sequence texts).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Explore the different sections below to hear them talk about their books, what inspires them to write and how they go about the process of writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Share these videos with your children to enrich their reading experiences and spark ideas for their own writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You can subscribe to our complete collection of\u00a0BookWrites teaching sequences.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n We first came across Matt Goodfellow through his poetry in Carry Me Away and loved the poems so much that we wrote a teaching sequence for years 3 and 4 based on two of the poems in particular. You can hear Matt read those poems in this interview. To contact Matt about school visits\/virtual workshops and to find more videos of him reading his poems and sharing ideas, please visit the Matt Goodfellow website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n All images and poems are reproduced with the kind permission of the author and publisher, Matt Goodfellow.<\/p>\n\n\n\nInterview with poet Matt Goodfellow<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Based in the Manchester area where he was born and grew up, Matt is a former primary school teacher (and aspiring rock star!). His poetry encompasses many areas of our lives \u2013 family relationships and friendships, funny events and thoughts, connections with wildlife and the natural world, and the whole span of human emotions. To read more of his work, you might also be interested in his recent collections:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n