Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Duck for President

Use Duck for President by Doreen Cronin to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

Duck doesn't like to work for Farmer Brown. It's hard and messy. u00a0In search of the easy life, Duck leaves the farm and hits the campaign trail. Duck for President is a funny story that children will enjoy reading as they infer the comedic delivery of the hilarious illustrations.

Explore lesson plans and activities to help you teach with Duck for President in the drop down below.

Identifying the Author’s Purpose with Duck for President

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Identifying the Author’s Purpose with Duck for President

By helping reader's to identify the author's purpose for Duck for President, you can use the book as a playful springboard for conversation around Duck's motives for wanting to be President.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
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Making Connections with Duck for President

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Making Connections with Duck for President

Your students will quickly make text to self and text to world connections while reading this book. Use this lesson plan and set of resources to extend their connections by helping them make meaningful ones that deepen comprehension.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
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Making Inferences with Duck for President

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Making Inferences with Duck for President

Doreen Cronin's hilarious illustrations provide readers with multiple opportunities make meaningful inferences while learning about our political process and what it takes to be President.
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Retelling & Summarizing with Duck for President

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Retelling & Summarizing with Duck for President

With its engaging cast of characters and comedic plot, Duck for President offers readers the opportunity to identify which events, characters, problems, and solutions should be included when they retell or summarize the book.
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Synthesizing with Duck for President

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Synthesizing with Duck for President

Duck learns a lot about what it takes to be President. Help your students track the ways in which duck changes across the text with this synthesizing lesson plan and set of resources.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
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Vowels with Duck for President

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Vowels with Duck for President

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Duck for President by Doreen Cronin as a springboard for instruction focused on vowels.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how two sounds of the vowel combination "ea" are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with vowel combinations.

Common Core State Standards Alignment
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Vocabulary Connections with Duck for President

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Vocabulary Connections with Duck for President

This set of vocabulary development resources for Duck for President highlights the words that are most important for students to know and understand while reading the book.  Through engaging in fun word games, matching words to definitions and pictures, and practicing how to categorize words, students will develop the vocabulary necessary to comprehend this story and many others.

Common Core State Standards Alignment
TEKS Alignment

Running Record with Duck for President

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Running Record with Duck for President

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Duck for President. Track meaning, structure, and visual accuracy using the first 100 words of the text to determine whether or not this book is a good fit for the readers in your classroom.

Cause and Effect Matching with Duck for President

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Cause and Effect Matching with Duck for President

Read Duck for President then have some fun matching cause and effect sentences from the book. By using these cause and effect cards, students will demonstrate both their comprehension of the text and their understanding of cause and effect relationships in hands-on and interactive way.

This resource includes matching/sorting cards and a sorting mat for four cause and effect sentences in Duck for President. Each cause card is marked with a square and each effect card is marked with a circle, making it easy to support students who struggle with matching cause and effect relationships.

Cause and Effect Sentence Stems with Duck for President

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Cause and Effect Sentence Stems with Duck for President

Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of Duck for President includes several examples of cause and effect relationships, making it easy to use as a springboard for modeling or independent practice.

This simple resource includes four sentence stems. Each sentence stem presents an effect. Students will use what they know about the book to fill in the cause of the effect.

Writing with Duck for President

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Writing with Duck for President

The BookPagez extension activities are a great way to push student engagement beyond the pages of the text. Try using this activity with early finishers, with students who show a deeper connection with the text, or as a center activity.

Identifying the Author’s Purpose with Duck for President (Spanish)

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Making Connections with Duck for President (Spanish)

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Making Inferences with Duck for President (Spanish)

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Retelling & Summarizing with Duck for President (Spanish)

  • Student Practice Page and Answer Key
  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
  • Graphic Organizer

Synthesizing with Duck for President (Spanish)

  • Student Practice Page and Answer Key
  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
  • Graphic Organizer

Writing with Duck for President (Spanish)

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About the Book

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Title: Duck for President
Author: Doreen Cronin
Genre: Fantasy
Themes: Decision Making, Laugh Out Loud, President's Day
ISBN: 9781599610917
Publisher's Summary:
My fellow Americans: It is our pleasure, our honor, our duty as citizens to present to you Duck for President. Here is a duck who began in a humble pond. Who worked his way to farmer. To governor. And now, perhaps, to the highest office in the land. Some say, if he walks like a duck and talks like a duck, he is a duck. We say, if he walks like a duck and talks like a duck, he will be the next president of the United States of America. Thank you for your vote.
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