Lucky Duck by Barbara deRubertis

Author:Barbara deRubertis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kane Press, Inc. New York

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Activities to Do Together

These activities will support and extend your child’s reading and language skills.

READING, LISTENING, AND RETELLING

• Look at the cover together. Point out the title and the author’s and illustrator’s

names. Ask what the cover illustration says about the story. For example, who

is the story about? What is the character doing?

• Read the story aloud, pausing now and then to comment on the illustrations.

Talk about the setting, characters, and events as they unfold. Discuss how the story

might relate to your child’s own experiences. Then you both might enjoy doing one

of the following activities:

a. Have your child retell the story in his or her own words. Make a recording of

the retelling.

b. You and your child could pretend to be characters in the story. Take turns creating

voices for each character. Then act out the story using the voices you created.

STICK PUPPET SKITS

• Use stick puppets to dramatize the story. You or your child can draw or trace a

picture of each character on construction paper. You can decorate the puppet

with yarn, scraps of material, buttons, or anything else you have handy. Cut

out the puppet and tape or glue it to a solid rod or stick, such as a Popsicle

stick, ruler, pencil, or wooden spoon.

• You may want to perform the story skit using the voices you both created

in the activity above.

FLASH CARDS

Make flash cards by printing each of the words below on a 3" x 5" index card.

run fun dunk skunk drum tumbles jump bump duck luck

stuck bug tug mud buddy up puppy just trust us

• Read the words with your child. Talk about the letters and the sounds they make.

Discuss how some of the words are alike or different.

• Together find each word where it appears in the story. Discuss what the word means

and how it is used. Encourage your child to make up a sentence for each word.

• Using the words on the flash cards, help your child make a list of other words that

begin with the same letter and sound, that rhyme, that have the same ending.

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