stuck in muck
Lesson Plan
Target Words:
- duck
- muck
- suck
- yuck
- stuck
- truck
Materials:
- Pretend muck [e.g., playdough, flour and water, chocolate pudding, or muck]
- Muck recipe: Mix 1 cup flour, 1/2 cup salt, 1/3 cup cocoa powder; add 1/2 cup water and knead.
- Tray, cookie sheet, or bowl for the muck
- Drinking straws
- Paper duck and truck graphics
- Duck, little truck and big truck graphics
- Letter cards
- A Duck and Truck Get Stuck target text
Overview
The children will play with a duck or a truck in muck read and write words ending with -uck, such as duck, muck, suck, yuck, stuck and truck.
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Literacy Activities
Get a duck or truck stuck in the muck
- Prepare pretend muck or use playdough, flour and water, or chocolate pudding.
- Place a tray of muck on a table, surrounded by cut out paper duck and truck graphics.
- Have the children take turns choosing and reading a word on a duck or truck graphic.
- Let the children suck through a straw to pick up the duck or truck and push it into the muck.
- Have the children comment, “Yuck! Yuck! A duck (or truck) is stuck in the muck!”
- Repeat as desired.
Let a truck get a duck out of the muck
- Read the A Duck and Truck Get Stuck target text with the children.
- Let the children get a paper duck and a little paper truck stuck in the muck.
- Have the children use the big paper truck to help get the stuck duck and truck out of the muck.
More Practice
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; suck → yuck; muck → duck
- Change the vowel sound: suck → sick; duck → deck; muck → mock
- Change the ending sound(s): duck → dug; suck → sun; yuck → yum
- For each of the words the children make, have them produce the sounds for each letter and then blend those sounds back into the word.
Read target words in a text
- Have the children underline the words that end in -uck in the A Duck and Truck Get Stuck target text.
- Read the text to the children.
- Engage the children in reading the text simultaneously with you.
- Read the text again with faded support.
Write about the activity using target words and phrases
- Display target words on a word wall (i.e., duck, muck, suck, yuck, stuck, truck).
- Refer the children to the word wall and have them write a sentence of two expressing ideas from a lesson activity or target text (e.g., The duck got stuck in the muck).
SEEL Target Texts
A Duck and Truck Get Stuck
SEEL At Home
Objective
Read and write words that end with -uck.
Materials
- Pretend muck (e.g., play-dough, flour and water, chocolate pudding, or muck)
- Muck recipe: Mix 1 cup flour, 1/2 cup salt, 1/3 cup cocoa powder; add 1/2 cup water and knead.
- Tray, bowl, or cookie sheet for the muck
- Drinking straw
- Paper duck graphics
Activity: Stuck in Muck
- Place a tray of muck on a table, surrounded by the paper ducks.
- Ask your child to choose a paper duck and read the word written on it.
- Have your child suck through a straw to pick up the paper duck and drop it in the muck as he or she says, "Yuck! A duck! A duck is stuck in the muck!"
- Take turns doing the activity until all the ducks are in the muck.
- Have your child draw a picture of a duck stuck in muck and write a sentence or two about the duck by using words from the paper duck graphics (e.g., "The duck got stuck in the muck.").
Standards
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.B: Associate the long and short sounds with the common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.2.D: Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.)

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Stuck in Muck