One of the key features of the book Voices in the Park by Anthony Browne is the use of different fonts for the voices of the four different characters. This text innovation was designed to assist students to visually interpret the fonts and explain why a particular font has been chosen for each character. The first part of the activity would involve input from the whole class to describe each font, then the students individually identify and/or draw characters that fit their description.
After describing the fonts the students would be asked to try and match the fonts to the pictures of the characters in the story.
This would involve a class discussion where students would give their reasons for their choices.
Finally the students would get a chance to find their own font and make up a character to match it. This would be an individual task and the work of each student would be posted on the class blog.
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