Book Study: Duck for President (Election Day)

Looking for the perfect mentor text or read aloud for Elections and Voting or Presidents Day? The book responses for this presidential favorite are just what you need! This book study on Duck for President by Doreen Cronin is full of reading response pages that can be used to familiarize students with character analysis, plot elements and a great jump start to many fundamental reading comprehension skills.

Includes 9 ANSWER KEYS to make this an easy quick and print activity to leave for a substitute -or- for advanced readers who are completing an independent book study who are ready for critical and challenging questions.

Featured Pages:

Reading Strategy Worksheets

• Story Retell: Characters, Setting, Problem and Solution
• Story Sequencing: Beginning, Middle and End
• Story Sequencing: Order six events from the story
• Book Summary: Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then
• Central Idea: Identify Central Idea and support with Three Details
• Character Traits: Duck, feelings and actions
• Compare the Characters: Compare Duck and Farmer
• What Will Happen Next: Make a Prediction
• Book Review: Favorite Part and Author's Purpose

Creative Writing Activities

• It's All Hard Work: How did Duck feel about work at the beginning and end of the story?
• Lesson Learned: What lesson did Duck learn about Hard Work?
• If I Ran a Farm: If you ran a farm, how would you delegate the chores?
• If I Was President: If you were president, what would you do?
• Me for President: Create your own campaign poster.

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For Texas Teachers, this resource relates to the following 2019-2020 TEKS:

1.6A (K.5A, 2.6A) Establish purpose for reading assigned and self-selected texts with adult assistance.

1.6C (K.5C, 2.6C) Make, correct, or confirm predictions using text features, characteristics of genre, and structures with adult assistance. 

1.6E (K.5E, 2.6E)  Make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society with adult assistance.

1.7D (K.6D, 2.7D) Retell texts in ways that maintain meaning. 

1.7E (K.6E, 2.7E) Interact with sources in meaningful ways such as illustrating or writing. 

1.8B (K.7B, 2.8B) Describe the main character(s) and the reason(s) for their actions. 

1.8C (K.7C, 2.8C) Describe plot elements, including the main events, the problem, and the resolution, for texts read aloud and independently. 

1.9Di (K.8Di, 2.9Di) Recognize the central idea and supporting evidence with adult assistance.

This resource relates to the following Common Core Standards:

RL.1.2(K.2, 2.2) Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.

RL.1.3(K.3, 2.3) Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

RL.1.7(K.7, 2.7) Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.

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