five little ducks get stuck
Five Little Ducks Get Stuck
Lesson Plan
Target Words:
- duck
- stuck
- muck
- pluck
- yuck
Materials:
- Apron (optional)
- 6 duck masks*
- 6 craft sticks*
- Five Little Ducks Got Stuck song*
- Letter cards*
- Sticky notes
- 3x5 index card
*Items included below.
State and Model the Objective
Tell the children that they will pretend to be stuck ducks and read and write words ending with -uck, such as: duck, stuck, muck, pluck and yuck.
Literacy Activities
Stuck in the muck
- Cut out and attach each duck mask to a craft stick.
- Teach the children the Five Little Ducks Get Stuck song.
- Give six children duck masks and designate one of them to be the mother duck (with the apron).
- Have the six "ducks" act out the song as the rest of the children sing.
- Explain that when a duck in the song gets stuck, one of the ducks needs to sit down and pretend to be stuck.
- Invite other children to pretend to be the ducks and get stuck.
Identify, blend and manipulate sounds
- Let the children make a target word (e.g. duck) from letter cards and then let them make different words by changing either of the consonants or the vowel.
- Change the beginning sound(s): duck → muck; yuck → duck; stuck → pluck
- Change the vowel: duck → deck; stuck → stack
- Change the ending sound(s): muck → mug; pluck → plum; duck → dust
- For each of the words the children make, have them produce the sounds for each letter and then blend those sounds back into a word.
Read target words in a text
- Have the children underline words that end in -uck in the Five Little Ducks Get Stuck song.
- Read the lyrics to the children and then engage them in reading the lyrics with you.
- Read the lyrics with the children again while fading support.
Write about the activity using target words and phrases
- Read words from a flip-book.
- Write one letter or letter blend on each page of a stack of sticky notes (e.g., d, y, m, l, b), staple the sticky notes on the left side of a 3x5 index card, and write -uck on the index card to the right of the sticky notes to create a flip-book.
- Have the children say the beginning sound from the sticky note, read -uck from the index card, and then blend the two parts together to read the word.
- Help the children write a simple sentence using the words from the flip-book (e.g., The duck got stuck in the muck.).
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SEEL Target Texts
Five Little Ducks Get Stuck Song
Five little ducks got in some muck.
They swam in muck and one got stuck.
Mama duck called, “Quack! Get back, ducks!”
Four little ducks got out of the muck.
They swam in muck and one got stuck.
Mama duck called, “Quack! Get back, ducks!”
Four little ducks got out of the muck.
Four little ducks got in some muck.
They swam in muck and one got stuck.
Mama duck called, “Quack! Get back, ducks!”
Three little ducks got out of the muck.
They swam in muck and one got stuck.
Mama duck called, “Quack! Get back, ducks!”
Three little ducks got out of the muck.
Three little ducks got in some muck.
They swam in muck and one got stuck.
Mama duck called, “Quack! Get back, ducks!”
Two little ducks got out of the muck.
They swam in muck and one got stuck.
Mama duck called, “Quack! Get back, ducks!”
Two little ducks got out of the muck.
Two little ducks got in some muck.
They swam in muck and one got stuck.
Mama duck called, “Quack! Get back, ducks!”
One little duck got out of the muck.
They swam in muck and one got stuck.
Mama duck called, “Quack! Get back, ducks!”
One little duck got out of the muck.
One little duck got in some muck.
She swam in muck and she got stuck.
Mama duck called, “Quack! Get back, ducks!”
No little ducks got out of the muck.
She swam in muck and she got stuck.
Mama duck called, “Quack! Get back, ducks!”
No little ducks got out of the muck.
Sad mama duck went to the muck.
All the little ducks were stuck, stuck, stuck.
Mama duck said, “Yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck!”!
She plucked the little ducks out of the muck.
All the little ducks were stuck, stuck, stuck.
Mama duck said, “Yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck!”!
She plucked the little ducks out of the muck.
Pluck! Pluck! Pluck! Pluck! Pluck!
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SEEL At Home
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Objective
Read and write words ending with -uck.
Materials
- Duck graphics (cut out) and Five Little Ducks song
- A little booklet (one sheet of paper cut into fourths and stapled together like a book).
Activity: Five Little Ducks Get Stuck
- Designate a spot on the table or the floor to be the "muck" where the ducks get stuck.
- Sing the Five Little Ducks song with your child, acting it out with the duck graphics.
- Read the Five Little Ducks song with your child and have him or her underline words ending with -uck.
- Display a list of -uck words and have your child write 2 or 3 sentences about ducks that get stuck.
- Have your child copy the sentences onto the pages of the booklet and illustrate the story (optional).
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Standards
SEEL lessons align with Common Core Standards. Please see the standards page for the code(s) associated with this lesson.
http://education.byu.edu/seel/library/
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Five Little Ducks Get Stuck