Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Voices in the Park

Use Voices in the Park by Anthony Browne to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

In Voices in the Park, four very different voices, each with a very different life story, share their personal perspectives of a walk through the same park. Early readers will enjoy this simple story, while more advanced readers will be able to observe the deeper messages in the text. Voices in the Park is a wonderful story that can easily be used to support lessons on retelling, asking questions, making inferences, identifying the author's purpose, understanding unique text structures, and determining importance.

Explore lesson plans and activities to help you teach with Voices in the Park in the drop down below.

Asking Questions with Voices in the Park

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Asking Questions with Voices in the Park

This lesson plan will encourage early readers to ask questions in order to clarify what the four different voices in the park are feeling and how they're connected.

Common Core State Standards Alignment
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Determining Importance with Voices in the Park

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Determining Importance with Voices in the Park

This is an excellent resource for supporting students who need practice determining importance. Readers are presented with a new angle on the same story four times. Thus, they'll need to practice filtering down to the most important details of each version to better understand each character and storyline.

Common Core State Standards Alignment
TEKS Alignment

Identifying the Author’s Purpose with Voices in the Park

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Identifying the Author’s Purpose with Voices in the Park

This is an ideal book and lesson plan for supporting students who need practice identifying the author's purpose in more sophisticated texts. Readers will be able to identify the main theme of the book, and then they'll work to find the smaller message in each of the voices' stories to support that theme.

Common Core State Standards Alignment
TEKS Alignment

Making Inferences with Voices in the Park

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Making Inferences with Voices in the Park

Voices in the Park is meant to be enjoyed several times. With each read, students will see something they didn't see before. The author relies heavily on the illustrations to provide insight into each character's thoughts and emotions. And when readers use the text and illustrations together, they will be able to infer so much more about the characters.

Common Core State Standards Alignment
TEKS Alignment

Retelling & Summarizing with Voices in the Park

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Retelling & Summarizing with Voices in the Park

Voices in the Park is a really special choice for readers who need support retelling with more sophisticated text structures. This story is told from four different perspectives, so readers will have to identify key details from each version to construct a full summary.

Common Core State Standards Alignment
TEKS Alignment

Understanding Text Structure with Voices in the Park

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Understanding Text Structure with Voices in the Park

Because this story is told from four different perspectives, this is the perfect book and lesson plan for showing students how to understand a point-of-view text structure. If you're looking for another supporting text for demonstrating point of view, check out The Pain and the Great One.

Common Core State Standards Alignment
TEKS Alignment

Parts of Speech with Voices in the Park

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Parts of Speech with Voices in the Park

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Voices in the Park by Anthony Browne as a springboard for instruction focused on parts of speech.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how possessive pronouns are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with pronouns.

Common Core State Standards Alignment
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Vocabulary Connections with Voices in the Park

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Vocabulary Connections with Voices in the Park

This set of vocabulary development resources for Voices in the Park highlights the words that are most important for students to know and understand while reading the book. Through engaging in fun word games, matching words to definitions and pictures, and practicing how to categorize words, students will develop the vocabulary necessary to comprehend this story and many others.

Common Core State Standards Alignment
TEKS Alignment

Running Record with Voices in the Park

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Running Record with Voices in the Park

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Voices in the Park. Track meaning, structure, and visual accuracy using the first 100 words of the text to determine whether or not this book is a good fit for the readers in your classroom.

Writing with Voices in the Park

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Writing with Voices in the Park

The BookPagez extension activities are a great way to push student engagement beyond the pages of the text. Try using this activity with early finishers, with students who show a deeper connection with the text, or as a center activity.

Asking Questions with Voices in the Park (Spanish)

  • Student Practice Page and Answer Key
  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
  • Graphic Organizer

Determining Importance with Voices in the Park (Spanish)

  • Student Practice Page and Answer Key
  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
  • Graphic Organizer

Identifying the Author’s Purpose with Voices in the Park (Spanish)

  • Student Practice Page and Answer Key
  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
  • Graphic Organizer

Making Inferences with Voices in the Park (Spanish)

  • Student Practice Page and Answer Key
  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
  • Graphic Organizer

Retelling & Summarizing with Voices in the Park (Spanish)

  • Student Practice Page and Answer Key
  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
  • Graphic Organizer

Understanding Text Structure with Voices in the Park (Spanish)

  • Student Practice Page and Answer Key
  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
  • Graphic Organizer

Writing with Voices in the Park (Spanish)

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About the Book

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Title: Voices in the Park
Author: Anthony Browne
Genre: Fantasy
Themes: Family, Friendship
ISBN: 9780789481917
Publisher's Summary:
I called his name . . . I settled on a bench . . . I was amazed . . . I felt really, really happy . . . Four people enter a park, and through their eyes we see four different visions. There's the bossy woman, the sad man, the lonely boy, and the young girl whose warmth touches those she meets. As the story moves from one voice to another, their perspectives are reflected in the shifting landscape and seasons. This is an intriguing, multi-layered, enormously entertaining book that demands to be read again and again.
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