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Voices in the
Park
By Anthony
Browne

Play is a major
theme and way for
Picture book,
the different
fiction
characters to
interact

Estrellita Says
Goodbye To Her
Island (bilingual
book in English
and Spanish)
by Samuel
Caraballo

Serves as a
jumping off point
for students to
Picture book, imagine playing
fiction
with someone who
has just moved
from another
country

Roxaboxen by
Alice McLerran

A Fine, Fine
School by
Sharon Creech

Wissahickon
Valley Park

Smith Memorial
Playground

Rationale

Children develop
their own land in
the story, which
Picture book, leads to students
fiction
making their own
adventure
playground in the
classroom
Students can
imagine having to
Picture book, convince their
fiction
principal to give
them recess and
summer vacation
Field trip that will
take place in midMarch before the
unit on play. Can
Field trip
reference it
destination
through questions
like How did you
play at the
Wissahickon?
Playground in
Philadelphia,
Field trip
students could
destination
rate, describe, or
write about playing
there

Limitations
Possible
above grade
level for 2nd
graders
I cant speak
Spanish, so
students will
be missing
out on
hearing the
story in both
English in
Spanish
Story is not
about a
playground
so much as
an a play
land, but the
connection is
still there

The Land
documentary
trailer

The
Importance of
Playing with
Fire
documentary
clip

10

11

12

13

Video clip on
Vimeo.com

Introduces students
to what an
adventure
playground is; what
it looks like

Children have
thick accents,
but there are
captions

Video clip on
Vimeo.com

Montage of several
different ways to
play at an
adventure
playground

Same as
previous
trailer

http://www.pbs.
org/parents/chil
ddevelopmenttr
acker/seven/ind
ex.html

Child
Developmen
t Tracker
online

Overview of how 7
and 8 year olds
approach creative
arts, literacy, math,
science, etc. and
how to enable
healthy social and
emotional growth
in children that age

http://www.writi
ngprompts.net/
2nd-grade/

Online list of
2nd grade
writing
prompts

A variety of writing
prompts that could
serve as inspiration
for 2nd grade
writing

http://www.mus
eumofplay.org

National
Museum of
Plays
website

http://www.nifpl
ay.org

National
Institute for
Plays
website

http://www.edu
cationworld.co
m/a_lesson/less

Lesson ideas
around
debate

Offers resources to
families and
educators about
the benefits of
play, as well as
links to educational
research.
Resources about
the benefits of play
to people of all
ages; provides a lot
of links to
supporting
research
Resource for
teachers who want
to include 4

Child
development
often
describes
typical
children and
does not
account for
students with
development
al delays or
special needs
British
spelling and
language
may be
confusing to
US teacher

Have to tailor
the ideas to
what you

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Street view of
Pastorius
Elementary
School

Lesson ideas
around
Voices in the
Park

Google Maps

Corners or debate
in an elementary
level classroom

want to teach

Resource for
teacher who want
to use Voices in
the Park in literacy
lessons

Have to tailor
the ideas to
what you
want to teach

Shows students
what a playground
looks like at a
different school

May not be
able to see
playground
as clearly on
Apple TV as
on a regular
laptop