State and Model the Objective
The children will play with ducks and trucks in muck and will add sounds to the -uck ending to make words, such as duck, muck, suck, and stuck. 
Literacy Activities
Get a duck and truck stuck in muck

• Prepare a tray of “muck” for the children to interact with.
  • Options include playdough, pudding, flour and water, and a muck recipe (see below).
• Place a tray of “muck” on a table with pictures of a duck and truck.
• Allow the children to use straws to suck a paper duck or a paper truck and put it in the muck.
• Read the -uck word on the paper duck or truck and clap out each sound (e.g., t + r + u + ck).
• Ask the children, “Is the duck in the /m/ /u/ /k/, muck?”
• Have the children tell what word you are saying:  tr + uck = truck, d + uck = duck, st + uck = stuck, y + uck = yuck.

Clap out sounds in words 

• Have the children clap for each sound in the words duck, muck, and yuck (e.g., /d/ /u/ /ck/).
• Ask the children how many sounds they hear in the word duck. 
• Repeat with other -uck words (e.g., tuck, suck, yuck, stuck, muck).

Read target words in a text 

• Read the A Duck and Truck Get Stuck target text (see below) to and with the children.
• Read the text again, fading support.
• Have the children find the words that end in -uck.

Write -uck words

• Have the children write -uck words from dictation.