Reading Strategy Lesson

Teacher: Madeline Bahou

Grade Level: First Grade
Date: 12 April 2017
Format: My two students
Small group

Strategy Critical Literacy- Perspectives

Objective/Purpose/Instructional
Goals:
Texts/Resources/Materials:
Assessment(s):
Brief outline (Activities):
Students will be able to understand perspectives
and will be able to verbalize how the 4
perspectives in the book are different or similar.
Students will be able to write their own
perspective on their most recent playground/park
experience.
Voices in the Park by Anthony Browne
Smiley Face worksheet
Blank paper
Pencils/colored pencils/crayons
Students oral responses to each persons
perspectives in the book.
Students discussion during the reading of the
story
Students written work on their time at the park
Students oral and written expressions on the
Smiley Face worksheet.
1. I will give each student a piece of blank paper and they
will write 3 sentences on their most recent trip to the park.
We will come back to these later.
2. Teacher will introduce the book, but before doing so,
she will go over vocabulary words present in book.
3. Teacher shows the students Voices in the Park by
Anthony Browne and asks them to look at the cover and
title to guess what the book will be about.
Potential Questions:
- Where does this story take place?
- Who do you think the main characters will be?
- What do you think will happen in this story?
- What does the title hint at?
4. Teacher will read Voices in the Park with expression
parallel to each voice in the story. After each
person/animal shares their perspective of the park, the
teacher will pause and to ask questions.
Potential Questions (not limited to only these):
- What is going on in this book?
- Who is speaking?
- Did you notice any animals, people, or
landscaping we have seen on other animals
 pages?
- Why do you think this person was mad/sad? What
made them feel this way?
5. As we finish up the book, I will ask students their
overall thoughts. I will ask prompting questions like
- Where were all these parks?
- How many were there? One??? Why do you think that?
- So why were there several different people talking about
the same park?
6. Students will read their sentences they wrote at the
beginning of the lesson. This will make it feel like their
writing is part of the book.
7. I will tell students about perspectives, if they have not
yet mentioned the word. I will tell them how different
perspectives get us to think a certain way.
8. At this point, I will give student Smiley worksheets and
they will fill them out in reference to their favorite
person/animal whose voice was present in the story. They
will read the page out loud, then tell them to tell me what
their characters feelings are. All students will participate.
9. To close, I will ask students what they learned today.
After they have answered, we will go over what a
perspective is again.
10. With any leftover time, students will practice reading
their own books.
NOTES *Use this area to jot down
any notes about the strategy or
lesson.

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