Daily Lessons for Teaching You Can't Say You Can't Play

Daily Lessons

This section contains 30 daily lessons. Each one has a specific objective and offers at least three (often more) ways to teach that objective. Lessons include classroom discussions, group and partner activities, in-class handouts, individual writing assignments, at least one homework assignment, class participation exercises and other ways to teach students about the text in a classroom setting. Use some or all of the suggestions provided to work with your students in the classroom and help them understand the text.

Lesson 1

Objective: Chapter 1, You Can't Play, The Habit of Rejection Paley was a Kindergarten teacher who had reached the age of sixty and who had become frustrated with the cycle of rejection that permeates play among children. Paley instituted a new rule about play, shocking her students, as Paley set out to garner acceptance from them for this new social order about their play time. The focus of...
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