Use Voices in the Park by Anthony Browne to strengthen your students comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Use this Common Core aligned comprehension assessment to evaluate students' comprehension of 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.
